“It's important that someone celebrate our existence… People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in.”

Vorkosigan Saga, Mirror Dance (1994)
Context: It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.

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Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA 1949

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