Jafiss

“He must master or be mastered; while to show mecy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed.”
― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
― Raymond Chandler, Long Goodbye

“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“NOT UNTIL WE ARE LOST DO WE BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND OURSELVES. —Henry David Thoreau”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight