Solaris

Book · 3 characters · 198 quotes · 1961

Quotes from Solaris

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"We are all prisoners of our own consciousness."
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"We build monuments to deny our mortality."
Kris Kelvin Death
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"We are visitors in a realm that does not welcome visitors."
Kris Kelvin Adventure
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"The past lives within us like a second consciousness."
Kris Kelvin Time
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"We seek connection across the void, but find only ourselves."
Kris Kelvin Solitude
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"Love transcends the boundaries of what is real and unreal."
Kris Kelvin Love
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"We cannot know another person; we can only know our projections."
Kris Kelvin Relationships
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"Consciousness is both our greatest gift and our deepest curse."
Kris Kelvin Wisdom
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"To love is to accept the possibility of unbearable loss."
Kris Kelvin Love
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"The past cannot be escaped, only endured."
Kris Kelvin Time
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"Solitude is the price of wisdom."
Kris Kelvin Solitude
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"What we seek in another person is reflection of ourselves."
Kris Kelvin Relationships
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"We are looking for an ideal society, but all we find are people."
Kris Kelvin Philosophy
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"We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the rules of life to its limits."
Kris Kelvin Philosophy
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"We are searching for God in the stars when perhaps God is the search itself."
Kris Kelvin Faith
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"Consciousness is both our greatest achievement and our deepest wound."
Kris Kelvin Wisdom
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"To be alive is to be perpetually homesick for a place that never existed."
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"The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is ultimately a search for ourselves."
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"The most profound discoveries teach us only what we have lost."
Kris Kelvin Wisdom
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"Solitude at the edge of the universe is the truest mirror of the human condition."
Kris Kelvin Solitude
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"We send our best minds to the stars, only to discover that understanding requires a heart."
Kris Kelvin Inspiration
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"To be human is to be incomplete, reaching always toward what we cannot grasp."
Kris Kelvin Wisdom
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"We are explorers of the external world precisely because we fear exploring ourselves."
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"Love makes us vulnerable to forces we can neither name nor resist."
Kris Kelvin Relationships
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"The ocean thinks in ways that reduce our greatest thoughts to whispers."
Kris Kelvin Philosophy
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"Hope is a luxury we can afford only when we stop seeking truth."
Kris Kelvin Hope
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"The presence of the alien only emphasizes how utterly alone we are."
Kris Kelvin Philosophy
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"The human heart is a universe more complex than all the stars we survey."
Kris Kelvin Beauty
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"We seek answers where only questions exist, and questions where answers are forbidden."
Kris Kelvin Truth
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"We are haunted not by the dead, but by the possibilities of what we could have been."
Kris Kelvin Death