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• El destino de un solo hombre puede ser rico en significado, el de unos cientos menos, pero la historia de miles y millones de hombres no significa nada en absoluto, en ningún sentido adecuado de la palabra.

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  Mean, Fate, Men

  "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 8: "The Monsters", p. 120, 1970.

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• And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread.

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  Dream, Son, Would Be

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• I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.

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  Shining, Fragments, Peeling

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• Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who has built clocks, but not the time that they measure. Has built systems or mechanisms that serve particular purposes, but they too have outgrown these purposes and betrayed them. And has created an infinity that, from being the measure of the power he was supposed to have, turned into the measure of his boundless failure.

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  Desire, Purpose, Betrayed

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• Psychoanalysis provides truth in an infantile, that is, a schoolboy fashion: we learn from it, roughly and hurriedly, things that scandalize us and thereby command our attention. It sometimes happens, and such is the case here, that a simplification touching upon the truth, but cheaply, is of no more value than a lie. Once again we are shown the demon and the angel, the beast and the god locked in Manichean embrace, and once again man has been pronounced, by himself, not culpable.

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  Fashion, Lying, Angel

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Futurologists have been multiplying like flies since the day Herman Kahn made Cassandra's profession "scientific," yet somehow not one of them has come out with the clear statement that we have wholly abandoned ourselves to the mercy of technological progress. The roles are now reversed: humanity becomes, for technology, a means, an instrument for achieving a goal unknown and unknowable.

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  Mean, Technology, Goal

  "His Master's Voice". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel, 1983.

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• Durante algún tiempo estuvo muy extendida la idea (fomentada celosamente por la prensa diaria) de que el "océano pensante" de Solaris era un cerebro gigantesco, prodigiosamente bien desarrollado y varios millones de años adelantado a nuestra propia civilización, una especie de "yogui cósmico", un sabio, un símbolo de omnisciencia, que hacía tiempo que había comprendido la vanidad de toda acción y por esta razón se había retirado a un silencio inquebrantable.

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  Ocean, Thinking, Vanity

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• For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ from philosophical systems and scientific theories, share this with them, that they negate the principle of randomness in the world.

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  Philosophical, Order, Principles

  Stanislaw Lem (1996). “Highcastle: A Remembrance”, Mariner Books

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• That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox...

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  Tunes, Jukebox, Coins

  "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 14: "The Old Mimoid", p. 204, 1970.

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• Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. Man can serve his age or rebel against it, but the target of his cooperation or rebellion comes to him from outside.

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  Men, Age, Rebel

  "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 14: "The Old Mimoid", p. 198, 1970.

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• I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over.

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  Ideas, Expectations, Lasts

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• Hay amigos con los que no compartimos intereses ni experiencias particulares, amigos con los que nunca mantenemos correspondencia, con los que rara vez nos encontramos y sólo por casualidad, pero cuya existencia, sin embargo, tiene para nosotros un significado especial, aunque extraño. Para mí, la Torre Eiffel es uno de esos amigos, y no sólo porque sea el símbolo de una ciudad, ya que París no me da ni frío ni calor. La primera vez que me di cuenta de este apego mío fue cuando leí en el periódico sobre los planes para su demolición, cuya mera idea me llenó de alarma.

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  Reading, Attachment, Cities

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “The Chain of Chance”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is only one positive role of the Nobel prize--it creates some common way to understand a writer. I cannot say, that I like this situation, but that's the way it goes. The books are being born and then walk around the world, just as children do.

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  Children, Book, Around The World

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• What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?' 'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is.

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  Creer, Pasión, Ideas

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• La exigencia de una pureza absoluta de los géneros se está convirtiendo hoy en día en un anacronismo en la literatura.

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  Genre Is, Literature, Demand

  Stanislaw Lem (2012). “Microworlds”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Solaristics, wrote Muntius, is a substitute for religion in the space age. It is faith wrapped in the cloak of science; contact, the goal for which we are striving, is as vague and obscure as communion with the saints or the coming of the Messiah.

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  Space, Goal, Age

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• I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up.

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  Analysis, Branches, Mathematics

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Plentitude, when too plentitudinous, was worst than destitution, for obviously what could one do, if there was nothing one could not?

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  Worst, Ifs

  "The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel. "Tale of the Three Storytelling Machines of King Genius", §4, 1974.

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• Nothing, my dear and clever colleague, is not your run-of-the-mill nothing, the result of idleness and inactivity, but dynamic, aggressive Nothingness, that is to say, perfect, unique, ubiquitous, in other words Nonexistence, ultimate and supreme.

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  Running, Clever, Unique

  Stanislaw Lem (2002). “The Cyberiad”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Science is turning into a monastery for the Order of Capitulant Friars. Logical calculus is supposed to supersede man as moralist. We submit to the blackmail of the 'superior knowledge' that has the temerity to assert that nuclear war can be, by derivation, a good thing, because this follows from simple arithmetic.

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  War, Men, Simple

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Really, one of us ought to have the courage to call the experiment off and shoulder the responsibility for the decision, but the majority reckons that that kind of courage would be a sign of cowardice, and the first step in a retreat. They think it would mean an undignified surrender for mankind as if there was any dignity in floundering and drowning in what we don't understand and never will.

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  Significado, Responsabilidad, Pensamiento

  "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 11: "The Thinkers", p. 158, 1970.

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• Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to _ n, Commingled in an endless Markov chain!

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  Humorous, Fields, Fairy

  Stanislaw Lem (2002). “The Cyberiad”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways. Our symptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter, counting, face to face.

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  Humorous, Space, Encounters

  STANISLAW LEM (1974). “THE CYBERIAD”

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• Giese was an unemotional man, but then in the study of Solaris emotion is a hindrance to the explorer. Imagination and premature theorizing are positive disadvantages in approaching a planet where-as has become clear-anything is possible... The fact is that in spite of his cautious nature the scrupulous Giese more than once jumped to premature conclusions. Even when on their guard, human beings inevitably theorize.

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  Men, Imagination, Facts

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