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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.