A Voyage to Arcturus

by David Lindsay

We think nothing of long distances here—we have so much to think about and feel. Time goes all too quickly.”

“Feelings which flourish on illusions, and sicken and die on realities, aren’t worth considering.

“Life breeds passion, passion breeds suffering, suffering breeds the yearning for relief from suffering.

“The second world is Love—by which I don’t mean lust. Without love, every individual would be entirely self-centred and unable deliberately to act on others. Without love, there would be no sympathy—not even hatred, anger, or revenge would be possible. These are all imperfect and distorted forms of pure love. Interpenetrating Faceny’s world of Nature, therefore, we have Amfuse’s world of Love, or Relation.”

“When everything is darkest, he may be nearest, Maskull.”

“To meet with new experiences, perhaps. The old ones no longer interested me.”