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| New quotes in yellow Old quotes in black "Buckle your seatbelt Dorothy because Kansas is going bye bye." -Cypher, The Matrix "Pay no attention to the man behind the screen." -The Great and Powerful Oz, The Wizzard of Oz "...grand gestures are splendid, if you can afford them." -Nicholas Urfe, The Magus "I was tired, tired, tired of deception; and most tired of all of being self-tricked, of being endlessly at the mercy of my own loins; the craving for the best, that made the very worst of me... My monstrous crime was... to have imposed the role I needed from Alison on her real self." -Nicholas Urfe, The Magus �One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true � they were successful because they imposed chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the super-ego, what you will. They said, �You may persecute the minority, you may kill, you may torture, you may couple and breed without love.� They offered humanity all its great temptations. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.� -Maurice Conchis, The Magus �The lightning: flashes of seeing all, darkness of still doubting it.� -Nicholas Urfe, The Magus �I wished I had saved the coffee to throw until then.� -Nicholas Urfe, The Magus �Somehow she had learnt to lie with her body as other people could only lie with their tongues.� -Nicholas Urfe re: Lily, The Magus �Alysson� from the Greek a (without), lyssa (madness)� -The Magus �I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.� -Maurice Conchis re: Nicholas Urfe, The Magus �already she seemed far away, not in distance, not in time, but in some dimension for which there is no name. Reality, perhaps.� -Nicholas Urfe re: Alison, The Magus "'But I'm not a serpent, I tell you!' said Alice, 'I'm a- I'm a-' 'Well! What are you?' said the Pigeon. 'I can see you're trying to invent something!' 'I- I'm a little girl,' said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she remembered the number of changes she had gone through that day. 'A likely story indeed!' said the Pigeon in a tone of the deepest contempt. 'I've seen a good many little girls in my time, but never one with such a neck as that! No, no! You're a serpent; and there's no use denying it. I suppose you'll be telling me next that you never tasted an egg!' 'I have tasted eggs, certainly,' said Alice, who was a very truthful child; 'but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know.' 'I don't believe it,' said the Pigeon; 'but if they do, why then they're a kind of serpent, that's all I can say.' This was such a new idea to Alice that she was quite silent for a minute or two..." -Alice and the Pigeon, Alice in Wonderland The Warning Signs of Insanity (viewed 11/19/03 Copyright (C) 2003 Brandon Long.) #16 - Your father pretends you don't exist, just to play along with your little illusion. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Albert Einstein When an insane person�or a hypnotized person or a person from a primitive culture�advances some explanation of the universe that is completely at odds with current scientific reality, we do not have to believe he has jumped off the end of the empirical world. He is just a person who is valuing intellectual patterns that, because they are outside the range of our own culture, we perceive to have very low quality. Lila by Robert Pirsig |