Even now, I cannot decide whether I was foolish dupe or noble and tragic lover. Or whether the two are one and the same. - Norman Spinrad

"In fifteen billion years did spirit out of less than dust evolve," he said. "In fifteen billion more will not this universe of stars to less than dust return? Whence did it come? What is there when it is gone?"

To become aware of a controlling process is to transcend the determinism of that process.

“If the path exists for spirit to transcend this sorry scheme of things entire, vraiment, it must exist for all.”
Or for none at all, I thought, but deigned not to voice.