Stanislaw Lem
September 12, 1921 - March 27, 2006
"We all know that we are material creatures, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and not even the power of all our feelings combined can defeat those laws. All we can do is detest them. The age old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that finis vitae sed non amoris, is a lie... So must one be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going?...I knew nothing, and I persisted in the faith that the time of cruel miracles was not past."
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