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“Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.”
― J.G. Ballard

“Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.”
― Thomas Ligotti

“I would prefer not to.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

“Life, my love, is a great seduction in which all that exists seduces. That room that was deserted and for that reason primally alive. I had reached the nothing, and the nothing was living and moist.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

“Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.”
― Samuel Beckett, Endgame

“They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Habit is a great deadener.”
― Samuel Beckett

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”
― Philip K. Dick

“Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

“All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.”
― James Joyce

“Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― W.B. Yeats

“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”
― Joseph Stalin

“The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.”
― Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

“Don't forget the real business of war is buying and selling. The murdering and violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals. The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as spectacle, as diversion from the real movements of the War. It provides raw material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught History as sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared for the adult world. Best of all, mass death's a stimolous to just ordinary folks, little fellows, to try 'n' grab a piece of that Pie while they're still here to gobble it up. The true war is a celebration of markets.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

“Danger's over, Banana Breakfast is saved.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

“To read too many books is harmful.”
― Mao Zedong

“War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.”
― Mao Zedong

“Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.”
― Mao Tse-tung

“You will kill ten of us, we will kill one of you, but in the end, you will tire of it first.”
― Ho Chi Minh