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"I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window. I could see myself lying on the pavement. Then I seemed to be standing by the body on the pavement. I was two people. Blood and brains were scattered everywhere. I knelt down and began licking up the blood and brains."
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"I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side."
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"The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting."
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"You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy."
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"The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask."
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"Are you afraid now?" said Gregor."At times," she admitted. "But it is no worse than if I were in Regalia. You see, I was tired of constant fear, so I made a decision. Everyday when I wake I tell myself it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it."Gregor thought this was the single saddest thing anyone had ever said to him. He couldn't answer."And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?"
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"I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind."
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"Our shadow is on the outside. And we can see in the dark: we can see you, we see you turn away, but one day we finally understand that you turn away not from our faces but from your own fears. From those things inside you that you think mark you as someone unlovable to your family, and society, and even to God."
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"When Jill woke next morning and found herself in a cave, she thought for one horrid moment that she was back in the Underworld."
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"Fear is proof of a degenerate mind."
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"Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences."
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"Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!"
Work
"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."
Fool
"Pearls mean tears."
Symbolism
"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion."
Change
"A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer."
Thought
"In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better."
Writing
"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."
Life
"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."
Truth
"There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be."
Law
"What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better."
Love
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