Chris

“Death's an old story, but new for each person.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Children: Introduction by John Bayley

“My destiny is fulfilled. My blood is all gone. My veins are empty. I die.”
― Ahmad Kamal, Land Without Laughter

“Hardly anything in this life is settled. Things that happen once will go on happening. But they come back in different guises, and that's what fools us.”
― Natsume Soseki

“Okay. He says there’s no death; it’s an illusion. Time is an illusion. Every instant
that comes into being never passes away. Anyhow—he says—it doesn’t really even come into being;
it was always there. The universe consists of concentric rings of reality; the greater the ring the more
it partakes of absolute reality. These concentric rings finally wind up as God; He’s the source of the
things, and they’re more real as they get nearer to him. It’s the principle of emanation, I guess. Evil is
simply a lesser reality, a ring farther from Him. It’s the lack of absolute reality, not the presence of an
evil deity. So there’s no dualism, no evil, no satan. Evil is an illusion like decay.”
― Philip K. Dick, Counter-Clock World