Delfina Steege

“To use the symbolic language of Bodkin’s scheme, he would then be abandoning the conventional estimates of time in relation to his own physical needs, and entering the world of total neuronic time, where the massive intervals of the geological timescale calibrated his existence. Here, a million years was the shortest working unit, and the problems of food and clothing were as irrelevant as they would have been to a Buddhist contemplative lotus-squatting before an empty rice bowl under the protective canopy of the million-headed cobra of eternity.”
― J.G. Ballard, The Drowned World

“Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. Here I stand. But no longer.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

“But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self. And is not our modern history, my brothers, the story of brave malenky selves fighting these big machines? I am serious with you, brothers, over this. But what I do I do because I like to do.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“У морфиниста есть одно счастье, которое у него никто не может отнять,— способность проводить жизнь в полном одиночестве. А одиночество — это важные, значительные мысли, это созерцание, спокойствие, мудрость…”
― Михаил Булгаков, Морфий