Nothing ever killed more people than being afraid to look like a sissy.”
“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― VALIS
― VALIS
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
― Dune
― Dune
“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.”
― Dune
― Dune
“If I had known it was harmless I would have killed it myself.”
― A Scanner Darkly
― A Scanner Darkly
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