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the question of ownership of the means of production becomes obsolescent. Whoever owned them (if such a phrase has meaning), a man, a group, a nation, or all mankind, they could be utilized only as the Machines directed.

I'll admit that this Frankenstein Complex you're exhibiting has a certain justification

nunca llegué a escribir un ensayo serio sobre robótica.

But as for me,' and he concluded in a whisper, so that Gaal could scarcely hear him, 'I am finished.

nunca llegué a escribir un ensayo serio sobre robótica. Tengo por lo menos la esperanza de haber escrito ensayos serios sobre imperios galácticos y psicohistoria.

To us, all life is a series of accidents, to be met with by improvisations. To them, all life is purposive and should be met by precalculation.

His first words were not calculated to improve the atmosphere of a gathering already considerably depressed by the deepening snow-filled twilight outside.

If one knew the truth how could there be freedom? If hell and paradise were in the middle of the marketplace, everyone would be a saint.

Misfortune draws people to religion and mysticism

A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps.

Schopenhauer was right. It's all that blind will to prolong the human tragedy.

When I think that Kafka loved this creature, dreamed about her, I am ashamed for man and his illusions.

A restlessness peculiar to people who turn the night into day hung in the air.

His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.

Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages

She has a fixation on love. Strong trouble. The girl left her window open one clear night and it crawled into her body while she was asleep. There's no spell can cure it.

They were dressed in black, silent, and dry-eyed, as befits the norms of sadness in a country accustomed to the dignity of grief

Mario no tenía humor para la chabacanería y había superado hacía años cualquier tendencia a la promiscuidad

No, literature was definitely not a reasonable career path in a country like Chile where intellectual scorn for women was absolute.

The Poet's funeral had turned into the symbolic burial of freedom.

Tal como decía Belalcázar, con autorización del rey la aventura se llamaba conquista, sin ella era asalto a mano armada.

Writers were mature men, solemn, remote, and usually dead.

Matias Eyzaguirre was at the port as well, with his car and a bouquet of roses for his reluctant fiancée.

Estaba interesado en leer a Marx, un judío que provocaba revoluciones en todo el mundo.