“The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is the universal means of solving all knots; and along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox - the single most worthy path of the fearless mind.”
― We
― We
“I stopped and listened. But all I could hear was.. a kind of thudding, and not in me but somewhere near me... my heart.”
― We
― We
“Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.”
― We
― We
“Everything used to revolve around the sun; now I knew it all revolved around me-slowly, blissfully, squinting its eyes.”
― We
― We
“For one second I stared at her like all the others as something that had dropped out of nowhere: She was no longer a number, she was simply a person; she existed as nothing more than the metaphysical substance of the insult committed against OneState. But then some one of her movements-turning, she twisted her hips to the left-and all at once I knew: I know her, I know that body resilient as a ship-my eyes, my lips, my hands know it-in one moment I was absolutely sure of it.”
― We
― We
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