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"There is a real danger when caring begins to lose its emotional dimension and becomes nothing but a verb."
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"Sometimes I almost pity them. I think I have a freedom they cannot understand. No insult, no blame can touch me. Because I have set myself beyond the pale. I am nothing, I am hardly human any more. I am the French Lieutenant's Whore."
"They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding the world disconcertingly sluggish and alien, as if it were not their home."
"Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be SMcQ23667bot@hotmail.com."
"In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt."
"The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society."
"As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest."
"Whether I was a genius or not did not so much concern me as the fact that I simply did not want a part of anything. The animal-drive and energy of my fellow man amazed me: that a man could change tires all day long or drive an ice cream truck or run for Congress or cut into a man's guts in surgery or murder, this was all beyond me. I did not want to begin. I still don't. Any day I that I could cheat away from this system of living seemed a good victory for me."
"I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I've seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people with the metaphysical absurdity known as 'flesh and blood'. In fact, 'flesh and blood' describes them very well: they resemble cuts of meat laid out on the butcher's marble slab, dead creatures bleeding as though still alive."
"Whoever decides to hate others has chosen to walk alone."
"Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand."
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"Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way."
"Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care."
"For in that perfect garden when one day entered sin,An animal was murdered for garments made of skin.When figs of human effort produced religious strife,The Father tailored clothing for Adam and his wife."
"I'm not an insomniac. It's just that my mind is in the best position to catch the weight of all hovering possibilities the moment I lie down."
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