Дэн Симмонс — американский писатель-фантаст.
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Источник: проза
“While I was obsessed with my own misery, there were other things occurring in the human universe.”
Источник: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 21 (p. 422)
“The human mind gets used to strangeness very quickly if it does not exhibit interesting behavior.”
Источник: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 12 (p. 227)
“War does not call for judgment,” I said, “merely survival.”
Источник: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 14 (p. 105)
“Yes, our DNA is unique but so is a salamander’s.”
Источник: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 3 (p. 191)
Aenea is looking at me as she speaks, and I feel the gooseflesh rise along my arms.
“The Void Which Binds is always under and above the surface of our thoughts and senses,” she continues, invisible but as present as the breathing of our beloved next to us in the night. Its actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for our species elaborating myth and religion, for our stubborn, blind belief in extrasensory powers, in telepathy and precognition, in demons and demigods and resurrection and reincarnation and ghosts and messiahs and so many other categories of almost-but-not-quite satisfying bullshit.”
Источник: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 20 (p. 400)
“Pascal’s Wager never appealed to me. It seems logically…shallow.”
“Perhaps because it posits only two choices,” said Aenea. Somewhere in the desert night, an owl made a short, sharp sound. “Spiritual resurrection and immortality or death and damnation,” she said.
“Those last two aren’t the same thing,” I said.
“No, but perhaps to someone like Blaise Pascal they were. Someone terrified of ‘the eternal silence of these infinite spaces.’”
“A spiritual agoraphobic,” I said.
Aenea laughed. The sound was so sincere and spontaneous that I could not help loving it. Her.
“Religion seems to have always offered 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.”
Источник: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 10 (p. 166)
