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Certainly, a comic sensibility is essential if one is to outmaneuver ubiquitous exploitation and to savor life in a society that seeks to control (and fleece) its members by insisting they take its symbols, institutions, and consumer goods
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“There is nothing obvious about the picture of the world we have obtained using the scientific method. Molecules, quarks, atoms, billions of stars and galaxies, meat that knows it’s sentient—what is this madness? And, of course, one might ask: is the scientific model of reality not just another kind of magic, another absurd, fanciful delusion? The answer is: yes. However, it also happens to be the only delusion that doesn’t go away when one stops believing in it.”
― Geometry for Ocelots
― Geometry for Ocelots
“True liberation is through the recognition of one’s unopposable oppressors.”
― Geometry for Ocelots
― Geometry for Ocelots
“Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“He said silently and with infinite volume, Mind is only matter that knows it is matter. Matter is only mind that is yet to become mind.”
― Geometry for Ocelots
― Geometry for Ocelots
“Be kind, and when you can’t be kind, be fair. And when you can’t be fair, be clever. And when you can’t be clever, please be kind again.”
― Geometry for Ocelots
― Geometry for Ocelots
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