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Hyperion
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“It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.”
Quelle: Hyperion
“Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.”
Quelle: Endymion (1996), Chapter 44 (p. 449)
Quelle: Hyperion
Kontext: “Humanity has evolved—as far as it has evolved,” continued the old priest, “with no thanks to its predecessors or itself. Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.”
“Empathy,” Aenea said softly.
Variante: Sol remembered the dream, remembered his daughter’s hug, and realized that in the end—when all else is dust—loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave.
Quelle: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 30 (p. 242)
“In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.”
Quelle: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 6 (p. 431)
“There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.”
Quelle: Hyperion
“I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.”
Quelle: Endymion
“Words are the only bullets in truth’s bandolier. And poets are the snipers.”
Quelle: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 3 (p. 192)
“Mobs have passions, not brains.”
Quelle: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 32 (p. 266)
“Its hard to die. Harder to live”
Quelle: The Fall of Hyperion
“I am of no faith,” said Aenea. “If one defines faith as belief in the supernatural.”
Quelle: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 19 (p. 371)
