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Now starting to feel as though some personal devil had decided to devote its day to kicking him repeatedly in the balls,
“Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?”
― The Man Who Was Thursday
― The Man Who Was Thursday
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
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“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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