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Book: The Fall of Hyperion
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Dan Simmons _ The Fall of Hyperion
… May there not be superior beings amused with any graceful, though instinctive attitude my mind may fall into, as I am entertained with the alertness of a Stoat or the anxiety of a Deer? Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine … By a superior being our reasonings may take the same tone-though erroneous they may be fine- This is the very thing in which consists poetry …" -JOHN KEATS, in a letter to his brother "The Imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth." -JOHN KEATS, in a letter to a friend
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Dan Simmons _ The Fall of Hyperion
Humanity had become as blasé about sharing their lives with potential AI monitoring as pre-Civil War Old Earth USA-southern families had been about speaking in front of their human slaves.
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Dan Simmons _ The Fall of Hyperion
suddenly understood perfectly why Abraham had agreed to sacrifice Isaac, his son, when the Lord commanded him to do so. It was not obedience. It was not even to put the love of God above the love of his son. Abraham was testing God. By denying the sacrifice at the last moment, by stopping the knife, God had earned the right-in Abraham's eyes and the hearts of his offspring-to become the God of Abraham. Sol
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Dan Simmons _ The Fall of Hyperion
If I should die," said I to myself, "I have left no immortal work behind me-nothing to make my friends proud of my memory-but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd.
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Dan Simmons _ The Fall of Hyperion
We have made some progress, thought Gladstone, despite the inertia forced upon us by the Core. Despite the near-death of science. Despite our fatal addiction to the toys granted us by our own creations.
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Dan Simmons _ The Fall of Hyperion
The best lack all conviction," he thought, "while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Dan Simmons _ The Fall of Hyperion
Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be, we cannot be created for this sort of suffering." Oh, Fanny, if only you knew! We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, these limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain.
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Dan Simmons _ The Fall of Hyperion
-It is hard to die. Harder to live.
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Dan Simmons _ The Fall of Hyperion
The best lack all conviction," he thought, "while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Dur
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Dan Simmons _ The Fall of Hyperion
In an age where no information was inaccessible, no travel denied, such exclusion was maddening and tantalizing.
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Dan Simmons _ The Fall of Hyperion
in the end-when all else is dust-loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith-true faith-was trusting in that love.
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Dan Simmons _ The Fall of Hyperion
Nothing could be done about it-every human above the lowest Dregs' Hive poverty class had a comlog with biomonitor, many had implants, and each of these was tuned to the music of the datasphere, monitored by elements of the datasphere, dependent upon functions of the datasphere-so humans accepted their lack of privacy.
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