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The malady of indifference is what destroys many things.

"To exist is to stand out, away from the background [...] You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence."

We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain.

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class-whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.

The inner world was a heavy beast which could devour him.

"To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror; to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror."

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove.
Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument.
Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself—a barbarous form of incest.
Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

"Your eye is upon the power, not upon its subtle uses and its perils. Your future is filled, thus, with manifest unknowns: with arguing women, with coughs and windy days. How can you create an epoch when you cannot see every detail?
Your tough mind will not serve you. This is where you are weak."

Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

'Hooray!' he shouted, and then burst into tears.

They were watching the articulate become dumb, the wise become a fool. Didn't the clown always appeal to cruelty?