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GA-GA - GLORY TO THE HEROES
Piotr Szulkin
Poland, 1986

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GOLEM
Piotr Szulkin
Poland, 1979

WALTER M. WILLER
A Canticle for Leibowitz

The world weighed heavily upon him. What did the world weigh? It weighs, but is not weighed. Sometimes its scales are crooked. It weighs life and labor in the balance against silver and gold. That’ll never balance. But fast and ruthless, it keeps on weighing. It spills a lot of life that way, and sometimes a little gold.

WALTER M. MILLER

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Simpletons! Yes, yes! I'm a simpleton! Are you a simpleton? We'll build a town and we'll name it Simple Town, because by then all the smart bastards that caused all this, they'll be dead! Simpletons! Let's go! This ought to show 'em! Anybody here not a simpleton? Get the bastard, if there is!

WALTER M. MILLER
A Canticle for Leibowitz

If you try to save wisdom until the world is wise, the world will never have it.

WALTER M. MILLER
A Canticle for Leibowitz

The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they became with it, and with themselves as well. They made a garden of pleasure, and became progressively more miserable with it as it grew in richness and power and beauty; for then, perhaps, it was easier to see something was missing in the garden, some tree or shrub that would not grow.

When the world was in darkness and wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it. But when the world became bright with reason and riches, it began to sense the narrowness of the needle's eye, and that rankled for a world no longer willing to believe or yearn.

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A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ

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