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People don’t change; they do grow, but that isn’t quite the same thing. For as long as they live they’ll always have the same roots. In life, there are things about them we can learn to forgive and perhaps, in time, even forget. People
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“We live as we dream--alone....”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“I don’t want my pain blanked out, he thought to himself; I need to keep my pain. It is a part of who I am, every bit as integral as the joy I’ve felt.”
― Glyphotech and Other Macabre Processes
― Glyphotech and Other Macabre Processes
“The conditions of life have always been incomprehensible to me. In fact, the moment I became aware of the world I began hunting for a portal out of it. It's taken me many years to admit this fact to myself. It seems I'm simply not hardwired to process the din and dynamism of humankind. And so I withdrew my membership. I stepped out of line and let the hunt rush past me, contenting myself with nestling down among the bones your tribe left in its wake. I made myself vety small in the world and welcomed those faint and far-off impulses to come stealing in as they pleased.
I forfeited the tangible for the spider-graze of some phantom realm.
And yet it was I who fount the Real.
-The Eldritch Faith-
At Fear's Altar.”
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I forfeited the tangible for the spider-graze of some phantom realm.
And yet it was I who fount the Real.
-The Eldritch Faith-
At Fear's Altar.”
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“Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.”
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“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. "Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does." They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.”
― Brave New World Revisited
― Brave New World Revisited
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