Solaris

Book · 3 characters · 198 quotes · 1961

Quotes from Solaris

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"We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to include other planets."
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"The heart knows what the mind cannot accept."
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"We mistake the reflection for the reality."
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"We carry our dead within us always."
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"To love is to betray our solitude."
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"Memory is a mirror of the soul."
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"We are the measure of all things - and that's our curse."
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"We take what we can get, signed in blood."
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"We leave Solaris changed, but unchanged—forever suspended between two worlds."
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"Identity is fluid here; nothing is certain except uncertainty."
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"We are both prisoners and architects of our own existence."
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"The past is a country we cannot return to."
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"We are all becoming ghosts in our own lives."
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"We are bound to our pasts by invisible chains of love and regret."
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"We are all survivors of ourselves."
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"What is humanity but consciousness yearning to comprehend itself?"
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"Memory is the ocean that drowns us."
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"We carry our past within us like a phantom limb."
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"We are trying to find our home, that first home from which we departed at birth."
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"In the silence of space, we finally hear our own thoughts, and they terrify us."
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"The visitors teach us that love is not union but eternal separation bearing itself."
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"We sought to contact an alien intelligence, but what we found was ourselves."
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"We are not alone in the universe, but perhaps we are meant to be."
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"In the face of the infinite, human ambition becomes a small and futile thing."
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"To love is to accept that you cannot possess what you most desire."
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"In the darkness of space, we shine not with our own light, but with reflected glory."
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"In attempting to understand the alien, we inevitably distort it through the lens of our own nature."
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"The greatest distance in the cosmos is not between stars, but between human hearts."
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"Love is the burden we carry when we admit our own incompleteness."
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"I have learned that the universe does not owe us understanding."
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