SF Quotes: The nature of beauty

Dying Earth

“Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.”

Jack Vance, Guyal of Sfere, The Dying Earth

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SF Quotes: The true history of the race

Last Castle

“I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man’s accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race.”

―Jack Vance: The Last Castle (1966)

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