“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.”
― Two Cheers for Democracy
― Two Cheers for Democracy
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― Why I Write
― Why I Write
“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
― Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
― Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
“The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.”
― The Society of the Spectacle
― The Society of the Spectacle
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