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“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man—with human flesh.”

“They are dung heaps with village provost minds!… I must rule with eye and claw—as the hawk among lesser birds.”

“O you who know what we suffer here, do not forget us in your prayers.”

“If wishes were fishes we’d all cast nets.”

“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." (p. 12)