The competitors for this office sought as diligently to please their overseers, as the office-seekers in the political parties seek to please and deceive the people. The same traits of character might be seen in Colonel Lloyd’s slaves, as
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“When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.”
― VALIS
― VALIS

“In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don’t know what I am. I don’t know if I am or not.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying

“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

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― VALIS
― VALIS

“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
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