A U T H O R' S    Q U O T E S

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Golden bricks are often used to build
golden prisons.

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Faithless people
are like wingless birds.

 — Thoughts of Grandma Estela  (Julion Okram's book character) 

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The original word "romantic" denotes a universe of dearly desirable or potentially improvable circumstances intertwined with positivistic spirits, dreamful affections, and praiseworthy actions:  A cosmos in which devotion is one shining star among vast galaxies of other warmy suns.  Thus, downgrading romantic books to mere dating or intimacies is like forfeiting the endless perks of a lifelong love for a single hour of a wedding ceremony with the wrong person.

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Medicine has always been influenced
by two antagonistic opinions on achieving eternal immortality: 
One school insists "you must try dying";
the other admits that "you may die trying".  

The puzzling mystery is
why the first thinkers dare to self-stylise themselves
as the beacons of a 'pro-life' mindset...

 — Thoughts of doctor Kadlec  (Julion Okram's book character) 

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The crucial The problem with racists
is that they will always strive
to mutilate democracy into dermocracy.

 — Thoughts of Doctor Barton  (Julion Okram's book character) 

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The essential condition for progress is finding enough like-minded pioneers.  The vital foothold for making achievements permanent is to please enough like-hearted enjoyers.  And the progressor's crucial wisdom lies in promptly recognising all situations when those two groups may not necessarily overlap.

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Oh, dear naive boy, make no mistake.  History and the decades of my own service as a priest have taught me one thing:  Many lovecasters who pray every day for their future in eternal life would be the first in line to stone anybody coming even remotely close to making immortality real today...

 — Reflections of frater Humilidus  (Julion Okram's book character) 

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Our heads are definitely real - or aren't they?
And that's why, in a way:

Every fantasy,
even if it only takes place in one's head,
is also part of the real world.

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Anything that works somehow
can also go wrong somehow.

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If jumping into a cesspool
saves your life,
it doesn't make you a dirty person.

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When you are dying of starvation, bleeding, and broken bones,
perhaps it's time to stop throwing bread
at those who are hitting you with stones.

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Only imagination gives us the wings
to fly into a better reality.

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Priding like a star
will not get you far.

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The dictatorship of the majority
is nothing more
than another sort of blunt oppression.

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Fear social architects
who punish people for loving the lovable
and hating the hateable.

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Which breed of equality is more wantable: 
The one granting equal status to people of equal qualities and achievements,
or the one bluntly awarding idiots and non-idiots equal powers?

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Not even twenty billion years in the freshest air
can compensate you
for twenty minutes without oxygen.

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Always dying, seldom crying.

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Everybody is slowly dying,
every minute from birth till the end. 
Paradoxically, we seldom lament our mortality,
and we grieve only over some people and some destinies.

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Repetition is a mask of wisdom.

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If a corrected prisoner becomes a warden,
he will still spend his life in the jail...

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Where cooking has been,
there must be some steam.

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Many claim it's enough to mentally beg or verbally whisper their wishes into a pillow.  This allegedly motivates the omnipotent supreme power of the universe to reward the faithful solicitants with fulfilling their daily desires and saving them from illnesses or eternal death.  Those claimants consider themselves the almighty's illustrious defenders and beloved proteges, perceiving the above sun-shadowing personal status and ways of thinking as humble, superior, untouchable, and utmostly modest.  Less abundant are the quiet down-to-earth toilers who instead work hard to understand this world and to put effective stoppers to grim realities plaguing our lonely planet - such as natural disasters, violence, ageing, or perishing in vain.  Their transformative efforts often earn them the label of prideful sinners or worse (if not being burned alive, either figuratively or sometimes literally).  The question is:  Who might truly shield our children from nothingness - the unwavering heaven-oriented humbletons, or the fearful hesitant strivers?  Which of the two outlined attitudes seems more likely to preserve our bodies and dreams from turning to earthly rot or interstellar dust??

 — Thoughts of Aliver Alivieri  (Julion Okram's book character) 

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Why are some cube-shaped monstrosities called "functionalistic architecture"?
When, in fact,
the absence of basic classical qualities,
such as coziness, durability, or aesthetic delight,
is actually a clear decline in functionality?

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The most fantastic aspect of wise fantasising
is that it may one day
materialise into a fantastically wonderful reality.

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DOES IT SEEM THAT SOME QUOTES CONTRADICT EACH OTHER? 

FAIR POINT:  THEY INDEED DO.  

THE SNIPPETS ABOVE REFLECT THE THINKING OF VARIOUS BOOK CHARACTERS, NOT NECESSARILY THE AUTHOR'S STANDPOINTS.  AS SUCH, THEY CAPTURE THE SOCIETAL PLURALITY AND OPINIONAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PROTAGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS OF DIVERSE ORIGINS, EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUNDS, MORALITY LEVELS, AND DYNAMICALLY EVOLVING WORLDVIEWS.

A book,
that's a bundle of thin pages,
in which the entire universe can be hiding.

Sinister Barton   (Julion Okram's book character)

What could the mysterious Dr∙ Barton possibly mean by that??  Did he want to sound romantic or witty in his self-propelled stuffed armchair?  That easily might be right, because scientists must somehow celebrate the ongoing "March - the national month of books and reading", which was the month when he uttered that memorable remark.  But maybe he only referred to a shabby astronomy yearbook lying on a small waiting table.  Or...?  Didn't this quaint scholar accidentally come across another clue in that pile of incomprehensible things collected from old castles, cellars, forests, cemeteries, and underground tunnels?  Based on some previous experience, a schoolboy named Bruno is starting to grow a strong intuition:  Most likely, the number three option will prove correct...

Was Bruno right?  How it turned out, we will not reveal here.  You will find more in thrilling stories: