# Quote — Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker

> This kind of internal "telepathic" intercourse, which was to serve me in all my wanderings, was at first difficult, ineffective, and painful. But in time I came to be able to live through the experiences of my host with vividness and accuracy, while yet preserving my own individuality, my own critical intelligence, my own desires and fears. Only when the other had come to realize my presence within him could he, by a special act of volition, keep particular thoughts secret from me.

- Author: [Olaf Stapledon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon.md)
- Book: [Star Maker](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon/star-maker.md)
- Page: 25
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Olaf_Stapledon#Star_Maker_(1937)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon/star-maker/this-kind-of-internal

## More from this book

> Thus, little by little, it came about, as so often before, that the Star Maker outgrew his creature. Increasingly he frowned upon the loveliness that he still cherished. Then, seemingly with a conflict of reverence and impatience, he set our cosmos in its place among his other works.

p. 179 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon/star-maker/thus-little-by-little.md)

> It seemed that he gazed down on me from the height of his divinity with the aloof though passionate attention of an artist judging his finished work; calmly rejoicing in his achievement, but recognizing at last the irrevocable flaws in his initial conception, and already lusting for fresh creation.

p. 164 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon/star-maker/it-seemed-that.md)

> As I contemplated the host of deities that rose to me like a smoke cloud from the many worlds, a new image, a new symbol of the infinite spirit, took shape in my mind. Though born of my own cosmical imagination, it was begotten by a greater than I.

p. 161 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon/star-maker/as-i-contemplated.md)