Kindle Notes & Highlights
Why do we only see things truly upon seeing them for the last time?
I pretended my hardest at being an adult, kept my robe uncreased and waited for my turn to speak, until I pretended so hard that it simply became my nature, which I suppose is how adulthood happens anyway.
Perhaps that’s exactly what consciousness is: the mind creating the words, the words creating the mind…
Fascism is a difficult ideology to implement; humans are generally too clever to hate their neighbours without some charismatic idiot telling them to.
Pontification is for those who can eat.
“As a general rule I would advise against asking your delusions if you’re deluded,
When love is gone, there’s always reason. And when reason is gone, there’s always fire. The end isn’t far away now.
Could it be that when one awakes in a dream, they desperately invent a narrative to give all the chaos a shape?”
“The awful feeling in you, the sense that a whole series of unexpected events are about to take place – that isn’t sublimia or anxiety or a mental aberration. That’s life. That’s what living feels like. That’s spite and hope and longing in your veins just as nature intended. I don’t know where we’ll be tomorrow, but we’re on our way. Wouldn’t you like to come?”
Someone who behaves well only because they fear punishment from above is not a good person. They are a scared person.
Now Radi saw the benefit and curse of human meaning all at once. For it was by chasing meaning that mice had gotten out to the stars, but it was their being haunted by the promise of more of it that kept them from uniting among the stars. They looked everywhere for salvation, yet could never accept the answer was each other.
Nothing was to be feared – pain would come one day, so what? No one knew what the universe was for, and was that so terrible?
Still, now he would be a marriage of one and that was rather exhilarating, like starting up a mountain alone. (Or perhaps, he feared, it would become as crushing as reaching the mountain’s peak and admiring the view below, also alone.)
