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“Like a kelpie the sunlight feigns innocence until it meets my skin, transforming into a sharp-toothed monster that tears away at my cold dead flesh.”

Book:Blood Sipper

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“But no one can prepare for the worst. The worst doesn't only dash hopes; it tears through everything in ways that are almost meant to hurt, to punish, to shame. Despite my most sobering forecasts, life can still play the cruelest card and scuttle everything—and just when I thought we were sailing past the shoals.”

Life Metaphor Unprepared Andre Aciman Enigma Variations The Worst

Book:Enigma Variations

Source: Enigma Variations

“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse. And if we chance to forget what that must have been like, we have only to look at those states and societies where the clergy still has the power to dictate its own terms. The pathetic vestiges of this can still be seen, in modern societies, in the efforts made by religion to secure control over education, or to exempt itself from tax, or to pass laws forbidding people to insult its omnipotent and omniscient deity, or even his prophet.”

God Religion History Metaphor Modernity Blasphemy Theocracy God Is Not Great False Consolation Religion Poisons Everything

Book:God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Source: God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“But death was a wind too strong for that.”

Death Strong Metaphor Electra Sophocles

Book:Electra

Source: Electra

“Not long now: the blazing dream of my head is crawling out.”

Dream Reality Metaphor Electra Sophocles Made Real

Book:Electra

Source: Electra

“And for one infinitesimally brief moment, the universe peels open, and I can see everything—how physics and velocity and time intersects with the idea of a heaven above, how meta co-exist with the fundamental truth of their non-existence, how the sun can be a star can be a ball of dung rolled across the galaxy by a gargantuan beetle. Suddenly, it is all so clear.”

Metaphor Insight Epiphany

Book:Food of the Gods

Source: Food of the Gods

“Beat all kinds of fear. Be steadfast in your values and principles as you earnestly pursue success.”

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Book:The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success

Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success

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