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“the whole process and state of alienation could be short-circuited by appealing to empathy, shared knowledge, and most people’s desire to talk about themselves.”
― And Then I Thought I Was a Fish
― And Then I Thought I Was a Fish
“The revolution, which seeks to connect ideology to bureaucratic power and to manipulate behavior through the guise of expertise, is ultimately not democratic.”
― America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
― America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
“I could see no stars through the crude hot haze of the truculent night. It always to me, at night in Calcutta, that the day has suffered a humiliating defeat. The light has surrendered and publicly admitted its impotence.”
― Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India
― Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India
“Just as blue is delicate and mysterious, yellow clear and unsubtle, and red sanguine and passionate, so he felt ulfire to be wild and painful, and jale dreamlike, feverish, and voluptuous.”
― A Voyage to Arcturus
― A Voyage to Arcturus
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