“It's the basic condition of life to be required to violate our own identity.”
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.”
― A Scanner Darkly
― A Scanner Darkly
“Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel grief unless you’ve had love before it - grief is the final outcome of love, because it’s love lost. […] It’s the cycle of love completed: to love, to lose, to feel grief, to leave, and then to love again. Grief is the awareness that you will have to be alone, and there is nothing beyond that because being alone is the ultimate final destiny of each individual living creature. That’s what death is, the great loneliness.”
― Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
― Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
“What profit it a man if he gain the whole world but in this enterprise lose his soul?”
― The Man in the High Castle
― The Man in the High Castle
“You mean old books?"
"Stories written before space travel but about space travel."
"How could there have been stories about space travel before --"
"The writers," Pris said, "made it up.”
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
"Stories written before space travel but about space travel."
"How could there have been stories about space travel before --"
"The writers," Pris said, "made it up.”
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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