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Conscience, custom—the first makes cowards, Makes saints of us sometimes, makes human beings. The other makes Patriots, Papists, Protestants, Makes Babbitts, Sadists, Swedes or Slovaks, Makes killers of Kulaks, chlorinators of Jews, Makes
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“It’s like there was a fellow in every man that’s done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the same and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying
“When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.”
― VALIS
― VALIS
“I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying
“Where your thinking is, there is your experience; As a man thinks, so is he”
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“Thereupon he grew sad, and pondered this matter, and the conclusion of his thoughts was this, that true happiness and deep satisfaction could only be his if on occasion he succeeded in mirroring the world so perfectly in his poems that in these mirror images he would possess the essence of the world, purified and made eternal.”
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Ian’s 2025 Year in Books
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