“That’s how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality. *”
― Annihilation
― Annihilation
“We all just want to be people, and none of us know what that really means.”
― Borne
― Borne
“In the endless universe there has been nothing new, nothing different. What has appeared exceptional to the minute mind of man has been inevitable to the infinite Eye of God. This strange second in a life, that unusual event, those remarkable coincidences of environment, opportunity, and encounter … all of them have been reproduced over and over on the planet of a sun whose galaxy revolves once in two hundred million years and has revolved nine times already. There has been joy. There will be joy again.”
― The Demolished Man
― The Demolished Man
“Don’t you think”—he smiled—“that my lack of faith makes such a trance pointless?” “No, I don’t. And do you know why?” “No.” Nenneke leaned over and looked him in the eyes with a strange smile on her pale lips. “Because it would be the first proof I’ve ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all.”
― The Last Wish
― The Last Wish
“It is best to love first what you are fitted to love,”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
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