The Demolished Man
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If you believe yourself a natural killer, avoid planning too carefully. Leave most to your instinct. Intellect may fail you, but the killer instinct is invincible.
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“Listen to me, Mary …” ​“Don’t talk, Please, Line. Not in words. I couldn’t bear it if words came between us.”
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“The maze … the labyrinth … all the universe, created as a puzzle for us to solve. The galaxies, the stars, the sun, the planets … the world as we knew it. We were the only reality. All the rest was make-believe … dolls, puppets, stage-settings … pretended passions. It was a make-believe reality for us to solve.”
There has been joy. There will be joy again.