I also learned that I didn’t matter; that I was insignificant to the Father, that my wants, needs and desires would always be subordinate to his will. His will—that haphazard collection of infantile wants and limitless power. The Father’s
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“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 me I will turn to see fear’s path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Blessed be they who are not Patriots and Idealists, and who do not feel they must dash right in and Do Something About It, something so immediately important that all doubters must be liquidated—tortured—slaughtered! Good old murder, that since the slaying of Abel by Cain has always been the new device by which all oligarchies and dictators have, for all future ages to come, removed opposition!”
― It Can't Happen Here
― It Can't Happen Here
“The point could hardly have been clearer: if the president was pressuring the director because he feared that an investigation of Michael Flynn would damage him, then this was an obstruction of justice.”
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.”
― A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
― A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
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