# Quote — Olaf Stapledon, Sirius

> She said, "We are bound to hurt one another so much, again and again. We are so terribly different." "Yes," he said, "But the more different, the more lovely the loving."

- Author: [Olaf Stapledon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon.md)
- Book: [Sirius](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon/sirius.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Olaf_Stapledon#Sirius_(1944)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon/sirius/she-said-we-are

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> Of course I don't want the old religious dope. But I don't want just the new science dope either. I want the truth.

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> I, at any rate, acknowledge only one master, not forty-five million two-legged sheep, or two thousand million, but simply and absolutely the spirit.

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> Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be time. Oh, God, what for?

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