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“He was on the verge of obtaining his heart‘s dream, perhaps; a more alarming prospect than the verge of one‘s own death. For after all death, whatever else it may be when it comes to us, is not going to be a disappointment.”

Death Desire Disappointment

Book:Swiftly

Source: Swiftly

“Talk is what we have, what makes us distinctive. Talk to us is what webs are to a spider, or speed to a gazelle.’ ‘Talk is how we bring what’s inside our minds into the outside world,’ Albie said. ‘Animals have feelings and thoughts. Animals have always had feelings and thoughts – it’s just that only now have they been able to bring them out.”

Human Nature Animals Sentience

Book:Bête

Source: Bête

“The madness of faith is a very different thing from the madness of Enlightenment Reason.”

Reason Faith Madness

Book:Twenty Trillion Leagues Under The Sea

Source: Twenty Trillion Leagues Under The Sea

“for fear is all the blind future harrying us and when the scales drop away the fear goes too”

Fear Future Fearless

Book:The Thing Itself

Source: The Thing Itself

“and I said it is the nature of love to be infinite and in such an ocean any fear and jealousy is washed away”

Love Jealousy Infinite Love

Book:The Thing Itself

Source: The Thing Itself

“'A fine story', said Asterinov .... 'Six months in prison, that tale,' said Sergei. 'Was it the witch?', I asked 'I never know where the Party stands on issues of the supernatural...' ..... 'It was, - understand, I do not know for sure, I heard this at second or third hand - it was the walk through the forest. Apparently I was just too convincing in the representation of a poor man's yearning for money...'”

Humor Socialist Realism

Book:Yellow Blue Tibia

Source: Yellow Blue Tibia

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