Chris

“Okay. He says there’s no death; it’s an illusion. Time is an illusion. Every instant
that comes into being never passes away. Anyhow—he says—it doesn’t really even come into being;
it was always there. The universe consists of concentric rings of reality; the greater the ring the more
it partakes of absolute reality. These concentric rings finally wind up as God; He’s the source of the
things, and they’re more real as they get nearer to him. It’s the principle of emanation, I guess. Evil is
simply a lesser reality, a ring farther from Him. It’s the lack of absolute reality, not the presence of an
evil deity. So there’s no dualism, no evil, no satan. Evil is an illusion like decay.”
― Philip K. Dick, Counter-Clock World

“My destiny is fulfilled. My blood is all gone. My veins are empty. I die.”
― Ahmad Kamal, Land Without Laughter

“Great men die twice, once when they leave this world and a second time when their life work disappears.”
― Ivo Andrić, The Bridge on the Drina

“When you're held by the dead, you begin to feel that you aren't in this world yourself.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes