“Go back?" he though. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do!" So up he got, and trotted along [...]”
― The Hobbit
― The Hobbit
“I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Alas! Victor, when falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“...and his body responding with that maddening slowness from which one suffers when chased by the phantoms of nightmare.”
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“They think danger means something physical, getting scratched and a little blood running and the newspapers making a big fuss. Well, that hasn't got anything to do with it. Real danger is nothing more than just living. Of course, living is merely the chaos of existing, but more than that it's a crazy mixed-up business of dismantling existence instant by instant to the point where the original chaos is restored, and taking strength from the uncertainty and the fear that chaos brings to recreate existence instant by instant. You won't find any job as dangerous as that. There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it. And society is basically meaningless, a Roman mixed bath. And school, school is just society in miniature: that's why we're always being ordered around. A bunch of blind men tell us what to do, tear our unlimited ability to shreds.”
― The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
― The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
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