229 Quotes by Liu Cixin

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    Saving a species of bird or insect is no different from saving humankind. ‘All lives are equal’ is the basic tenet of Pan-Species Communism.

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    It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race. This thought determined the entire direction of Ye’s life.

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    In China, any idea that dared to take flight would only crash back to the ground. The gravity of reality is too strong.

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    I’ve got to learn how to live. If I can’t swing that, it’ll be a damn shame,” Luo.

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    Successful cooperation does not equate to successful understanding.

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    In the eternal night of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, two civilization had swept through like two shooting stars, and the universe had remembered their light.

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    I didn’t have a good impression of the tourists and pilgrims. The tourists had no idea what they were looking at, only running around to snap pictures.

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    If I destroy you, what business is it of yours?

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    Emancipation of human nature inevitably brings with it scientific and technological progress.

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