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“He was clearly aware of only one thing, his own total isolation. The world had fallen out from under him, and he was left alone.
To die is to lose the self and rejoin the rest. He had kept himself, and lost the rest.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
To die is to lose the self and rejoin the rest. He had kept himself, and lost the rest.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“I understand fine," Kevin said bitterly. "I just think it's fucked. God is either powerless, or stupid or he doesn't give a shit. Or all three. He's evil, dumb and weak. I think I'll start my own Exegesis.”
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“If I had known it was harmless I would have killed it myself.”
― A Scanner Darkly
― A Scanner Darkly
“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.”
― Dandelion Wine
― Dandelion Wine
“You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they pratically can't help behaving as they ought to behave.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
Phoenix’s 2025 Year in Books
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