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  1. Dan Simmons _ Endymion

    Have you ever noticed how on a trip-even a very long one-it is often the first week or so that stands out most clearly in your memory? Perhaps it is the enhanced perception that voyages bring, or perhaps it is an effect of orientation response on the senses, or perhaps it is simply that even the charm of newness soon wears off, but it has been my experience that the first days in a new place, or seeing new people, often set the tone for the rest of the trip. Or in this case, the rest of my life.
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  2. Dan Simmons _ Endymion

    Planck time and Planck length," I said. "I don't remember exactly-something about combining the three fundamental constants of physics-gravity, Planck's constant, and the speed of light. I remember it gave some tiny little units of length and time.
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  3. Dan Simmons _ Endymion

    shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.
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  4. Dan Simmons _ Endymion

    Meaning no disrespect, sir," says the other man, "but there's no way in the Good Lord's fucking universe that anyone can bar accidents or the unexpected.
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  5. Dan Simmons _ Endymion

    I did not know if androids could dream-
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  6. Dan Simmons _ Endymion

    androids do sleep,
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  7. Dan Simmons _ Endymion

    Father thought that the first stage of human happiness was a 'fellowship with essence,"
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  8. Dan Simmons _ Endymion

    If there is a God, I thought, it's a painkiller.
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  9. Dan Simmons _ Endymion

    I miei pensieri erano come mercurio... scivolavano sempre via, prima che potessi afferrarli o sagomarli in forma coerente.
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  10. Dan Simmons _ Endymion

    Perhaps Nemes and her kind will keep it in a zoo to hunt it when they are bored.
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  11. Dan Simmons _ Endymion

    Entropy is a bitch,
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  12. Dan Simmons _ Endymion

    The fabric of space/time is much like one of the elaborate Vatican tapestries, thinks Nemes, and she who begins pulling on loose threads does so at the peril of watching the whole tapestry ravel.
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