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"When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing."
"You have the right to remain silent,' the big cop said in his robot's voice. 'If you do not choose to remain silent, anything you say may be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. I'm going to kill you. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. Do you understand your rights as I have explained them to you?"
"There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened."
"There are things so horrible that even the dark is afraid of them. Most people don't know this and this is just as well because the world could not really operate if everyone stayed in bed with the blankets over their head, which is what would happen if people knew what horrors lay a shadow's width away."
Explore more quotes by Vita Sackville-West
"Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong."
"Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it."
"Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel."
"The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind."
"Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom."
"Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt."
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