Olly Grace

“A little poison now and then: that maketh pleasant dreams. And much poison at last for a pleasant death.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“America, for once in its brief and not always glorious history, must try to learn that its own experience is peculiar in world history, that it has been unusually fortunate in coming to maturity in an epoch of untypical peace and prosperity, and that it cannot continue to judge the world by the norm of its own mythology.”
― Samuel T. Francis, Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism

“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.”
― H.L. Mencken, Minority Report

“Life is hell, and the sweet still night of absolute death is the annihilation of hell.”
― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror