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• We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one else knows these lives. Consciousness is solitary. Each person lives in that bubble universe that rests under the skull, alone.

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  Dream, Pain, Real

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.359, Spectra

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• It is always the teacher who must learn the most... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.

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  Teacher, Real, Happened

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “The Years of Rice and Salt”, p.145, Spectra

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• How was it that destruction could be so beautiful? Was there something in the scale of it? Was there some shadow in people, lusting for it? Or was it just a coincidental combination of the elements, the final proof that beauty has no moral dimension?

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  Beauty, Beautiful, People

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Red Mars”, p.642, Spectra

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• Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.

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  Curves, Action, Elegance

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Red Mars”, p.233, Spectra

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• When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.

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  Common, Paranormal, Assembling

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.364, Spectra

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• I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves and in Little League and in the band and down at the beach and every day was an adventure. . . . I grew up in utopia.

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  Beach, Children, School

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2013). “Pacific Edge: Three Californias”, p.300, Orb Books

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• You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson.

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  Mistake, People, Important

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.651, Spectra

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• Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

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  Years, Long, Childhood

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Green Mars”, p.391, Spectra

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• On the river path in Boston beauty was most expressed as youth and intelligence. That made sense; sixty degree-giving institutions, some three hundred thousand students; that meant at least one hundred fifty thousand more nubile young women than demographics would ordinarily suggest. Maybe that was why young men stayed in Boston when their college years were over, maybe that explained why they were so intellectually hyperactive, so frustrated, so alcoholic, such terrible drivers.

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  College, Men, Boston

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• Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.

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  Beauty, Real, Promise

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Red Mars”, p.111, Spectra

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• History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.

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  Moving, Wave, Faster

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• A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.

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  Wind, World, Bigs

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “The Years of Rice and Salt”, p.4, Spectra

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• We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

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  Dream, Cold, Ends

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2014). “Icehenge”, p.287, Macmillan

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• Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's constant pressure, pushing towards pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call 'Viriditas' and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see.

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  Inward, Cosmos, Looks

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Green Mars”, p.19, Spectra

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• All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.

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  Patterns, Next, Moments

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2007). “Sixty Days and Counting”, p.35, Spectra

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• And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that my internal universe was unavailable for inspection by others. They didn't know. They didn't know, because I never told them.

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  Realization, Action, Stranger

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2014). “Icehenge”, p.33, Macmillan

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• It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.

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  Dream, Sleep, Reflection

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• The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.

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  Mind, Age, Stronger

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• There was nothing for it but to pace through just behind or ahead of the spooling present that was never there, caught in the nonexistent interval between the nonexistent past and the nonexistent future.

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  Past, Pace, Caught

  "Galileo's Dream". Book by Kim Stanley Robinson, 2009.

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• The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possible job skills.

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  Jobs, Law, Skills

  "The Years of Rice and Salt (Nsara)". Book by Kim Stanley Robinson, March 2002.

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• The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128

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  Rain, Men, Water

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