she had succumbed to that profound drive shared by all creatures who are faced with death—the drive to seek immortality through progeny.

“Humans are almost always lonely.

He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future.

thought of him more as a friend than as a hired sword.

“Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it’s a mountain.

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“Life improves the capacity of the environment to sustain life,” his father said. “Life makes needed nutrients more readily available. It binds more energy into the system through the tremendous chemical interplay from organism to organism.”

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“Axiom: the best place to conserve your water is in your body.