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After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.Arthur C. Clarke
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Humor was the enemy of desire.Arthur C. Clarke
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Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of doom without any sense of apprehension. The man who looks at the onrushing tidal wave, the descending avalanche, or the spinning funnel of the tornado, yet makes no attempt to flee, is not necessarily paralyzed with fright or resigned to an unavoidable fate. He may simply be unable to believe that the message of his eyes concerns him personally. It is all happening to somebody else. .Arthur C. Clarke
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What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.Arthur C. Clarke
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It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.Arthur C. Clarke
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Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity.Arthur C. Clarke