“Do you know what damnation can be, Sir? It can be a state of permanent caution, making one chronically unable to risk anything, even a risk which might save one from extinction.”

— Michael Moorcock , book The City in the Autumn Stars

Source: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 7 (p. 283)

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