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“Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories

“The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.”
― Robert Anton Wilson

“I must not fear. 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 I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Writing is an attempt to inscribe presence (transparence) that is always predicated on absence: the absence of the other to whomone writes and the absence of the self to that addressee”
― Amy Hollywood, Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History