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“I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer’ Earth, to steal their ‘precious’ physical resources, to wipe them out for fear of ‘competition’…as if a species capable of making the journey wouldn’t have had the power, or the wit, or the imagination, to rid itself of obsolete biological imperatives. Conquering the Galaxy is what bacteria with spaceships would do – knowing no better, having no choice.”
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“that ancient legend about paradise ... Why, it's about us, about today. Yes! Just think. Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative. Those idiots chose freedom, and what came of it? Of course, for ages afterward they longed for the chains.”
― WE
― WE
“How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?"
"That depends."
"On what?"
"On how I want to feel.”
― Permutation City
"That depends."
"On what?"
"On how I want to feel.”
― Permutation City
“The object of life is to make sure you die a weird death. To make sure that, however it finds you, it finds you under very weird circumstances.”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
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