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“We’re alive,” I said. “That’s what’s important.”
This seems to be the theme of the story.
There's a profound awareness of life that comes from its near extinction.
The author presents characters who are maladapted to the society in which they live. Presented as ugly and broken, perhaps the author is pointing out that even the least of us are alive, and isnt that worth something?
Each character in their own way come to engage in their life. Daring to dream, love, and even flourish in spite of a system that rejects, pitys and disregards them.
“A man is an angel that has gone deranged.”
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“This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.”
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“When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are. ”
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“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
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“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― VALIS
― VALIS
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