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VALIS
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God can be good and terrible—not in succession—but at the same time.
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“Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.”
― Xenocide
― Xenocide
“Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.”
― Xenocide
― Xenocide
“Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.”
― Xenocide
― Xenocide
“Knowledge is devalued when it becomes too generally known”
― Camp Concentration
― Camp Concentration
“We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word every now and then.”
― Xenocide
― Xenocide
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