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Book: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion
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  1. Dan Simmons _ The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book

    tourists smelling of UV lotion and cannabis.
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  2. Dan Simmons _ The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book

    More frail and illusory Than numbers written on water, Our seeking from the Buddha Felicity in the afterworld." Archbishop Breque cleared his throat and joined in the conversation. "That seems clear enough, young lady. You do not think that God will grant our prayers." Aenea shook her head. "I think that he meant two things, Your Eminence. First that the Buddha will not help us. It isn't in his job definition, so to speak. Secondly, that planning for the afterworld is foolish because we are, by nature, timeless, eternal, unborn, undying, and omnipotent." The Archbishop's face and neck reddened
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  3. Dan Simmons _ The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book

    driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heavens will; She can, though every face will scowl And every windy quarter howl Or every bellows burst, be happy still.
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  4. Dan Simmons _ The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book

    Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality," she said, setting her cup of tea on a flat stone. "The silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.
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  5. Dan Simmons _ The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book

    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
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  6. Dan Simmons _ The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book

    life and work revolved around duty, self-respect, and the ultimate value of one's word.
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  7. Dan Simmons _ The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book

    If one is to steal, steal from the forgotten masters." The
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  8. Dan Simmons _ The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book

    There was a van Gogh on one of the walls, worth more than most planets could pay. It was a painting of the artist's room at Arles. Madness is not a new invention.
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  9. Dan Simmons _ The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book

    Finally, Weintraub had dealt with refusing all sacrifice, refusing any relationship with God except one of mutual respect and honest attempts at mutual understanding. He wrote about the multiple deaths of God and the need for a divine resurrection now that humankind had constructed its own gods and released them on the universe.
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  10. Dan Simmons _ The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book

    Theoretically, I knew, Sholokov's design for the hawking mat allowed it to fly vertically, the incipient containment field keeping the passenger-theoretically, his beloved niece-from tumbling off backward."
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  11. Dan Simmons _ The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book

    The Consul dozed, snapping awake each time with a sense of falling, hands gripping the edge of the rigid hawking mat. He realized that he should have tied himself in with the single rope he had brought in his bag, but he didn't want to land-the
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  12. Dan Simmons _ The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book

    The Consul gripped the edges of the mat with fingers gone white. He had tied the strap of his duffel bag around his belt, otherwise the bag would have tumbled off to a glacier far below.
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