Moby Dick
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Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.
“The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.”
― Songs of a Dead Dreamer
― Songs of a Dead Dreamer
“I am infinitely strange to myself.”
― The French Lieutenant’s Woman
― The French Lieutenant’s Woman
“We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.”
― The Terror
― The Terror
“If one takes a close look at each fragment of a moment, one might choke with terror.”
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― VALIS
― VALIS
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