“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
“Alas! Victor, when falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength.”
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“He longed for a storm. But life aboard ship taught him only the regularity of natural law and the dynamic stability of the wobbling world.”
― The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
― The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
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