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“Woe never wants, where every cause is caught, and rash Occasion makes unquiet life.”

Book:The Faerie Queene, Book Two

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The Faerie Queene, Book Two

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Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser, a renowned English poet, was born in England in 1552. His poetry has had a profound impact on literature, with his epic poem 'The Faerie Queene' being hailed as a classic of English literature. more

“Nothing is given to man on earth. Everything he needs has to be produced. And here man faces his basic alternative: he can survive in only one of two ways—by the independent work of his own mind or as a parasite fed by the minds of others. The creator originates. The parasite borrows. The creator faces nature alone. The parasite faces nature through an intermediary.”

Independent Howard Roark Parasite The Fountainhead

Book:The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“Life sucks, and then you die. Yeah, I should be so lucky.”

Life Twilight Breaking Dawn

Book:Breaking Dawn

Source: Breaking Dawn

“The unconscious system of guidance is millions of years old, speech less than a hundred thousand. The brain had no idea any of this was coming. The unconscious must have had to do all sorts of scrambling around to accommodate a system that proved perfectly relentless. Not only it is comparable to a parasitic invasion, it’s not comparable to anything else.”

Brain Speech Unconscious Invasion Relentless System Parasite

Book:Stella Maris

Source: Stella Maris

“Governments represent their citizens in the same way as parasites represent their hosts.”

Government Politics Democracy Representation Citizenship Parasite

Book:The Pith of Life: Aphorisms in Honor of Liberty

Source: The Pith of Life: Aphorisms in Honor of Liberty

“Junie says that the worst thing about shame is the way it chains you down. The way it holds your mind hostage and won’t let you go, gnawing from the inside out, feeding on you like a parasite.”

Pain Shame Trauma Coping Painful Memories Parasite Inner Turmoil

Book:You Don't See Any of This

Source: You Don't See Any of This

“Every mad scientist secretly dreams of playing God.”

Science Scientist Mad Scientist Parasite Parasitology

Book:Symbiont

Source: Symbiont

“There's a thing on Earth, a marine isopod, that eats the tongues of fish and then replaces them so it can keep on stealing the fish's food. But to do so, it has to be a fish tongue as its second job. It's good enough at it that the fish goes on living, and maybe, because the new independent tongue has a load of little scrabbly arms, it's actually better than the old one.”

Parasite

Book:Alien Clay

Source: Alien Clay

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