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“I thought of how people are like planets—lonely little forts of mind with immense black distance barring them off from each other.”

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Fritz Leiber

“A Bit of the Dark World” (p. 263)
Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)

““Conscience is only social pressure,” he told her, tense without quite knowing why, “the impulse to submerge your ego in that of the herd, and do what other people want you to because you’re afraid of their censure. Realistic self-interest frees a person from the childish restrictions of conscience.”
“Are you sure of that, Jarles? What about your dreams? Conscience may be partly what you say it is, but it’s more than that. It’s hearkening to the wisest thoughts that have occurred to the minds of the human race.””

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Fritz Leiber libro Gather, Darkness!

Origine: Gather, Darkness! (1950), Chapter 14 (pp. 145-146)

“No matter how hard and wearisome an age this might be, it was certainly a very exciting one with regard to manifestations of the supernatural.”

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Fritz Leiber libro Gather, Darkness!

Origine: Gather, Darkness! (1950), Chapter 5 (p. 54)

“That’s what everybody’s been looking for since the Year One—something a little more than sex.”

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Fritz Leiber

“The Girl with the Hungry Eyes” (p. 230)
Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)

“Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age’s vaunted ‘communications industry’ had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other.”

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Fritz Leiber libro The Wanderer

Origine: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 21 (p. 158).

“Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.”

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Fritz Leiber libro The Big Time

The Big Time (1958)

“They, like many priests, had been much too fanatical and not nearly as clever as the god they served.”

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Fritz Leiber libro Swords Against Death

The Seven Black Priests (pp. 175-176)
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939-1988), Swords Against Death (1970)

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