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Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality dif...more

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Then the true name for religion,' Fat said, 'is death.''The secret name,' I agreed. 'You got it. Jesus died; Asklepios died - they killed Mani worse t...more

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The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who m...more

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Do not assume that order and stability are always good, in a society or in a universe. The old, the ossified, must always give way to new life and the...more

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Let me sleep," he said, and shut the door; it clicked in her face and she felt animal terror - this was what she feared most in life: the clicking shu...more

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He saw two stars collapse against one another and a nova form; it flared up and then, as he watched, it began to die out. He saw it turn from a furiou...more

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Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and ...more

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When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?

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Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

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We're all dreaming,” Arctor said. If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the m...more

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Time and tide, he thought. The cycle of life. Ending in this, the last twilight. Before the silence of death. He perceived in this a micro-universe, c...more

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but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of how it could be, a...more

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Maybe I shouldn’t have told you––about it being electrical.” She put her hand out, touched his arm; she felt guilty, seeing the effect it had on him, ...more

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Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.''Will you be all right?''I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going t...more

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The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?