When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.

Gene Wolfe

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Time turns our lies into truths.

Gene Wolfe

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Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

Gene Wolfe

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Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

Gene Wolfe

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We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

Gene Wolfe

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People don't want other people to be people.

Gene Wolfe

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There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

Gene Wolfe

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One of the easiest ways to dominate a man is to demand something he cannot supply.

Gene Wolfe

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We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.

Gene Wolfe

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He shook his head. "Everyone fears me, except you, Latro. When a man is respected, no one wants to plant a dagger in his back. When he is feared, everyone thinks upon it, and tests the point.

Gene Wolfe

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