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“seeking comfort through continuity, as grand voices somehow hold off the permanent darkness that gathers though it does not fall.”
― The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime
― The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime

“Hoarded things might easily become a menace; a mere fire-and-theft risk; a breeding-ground for destructive insects; a source of worry. Men would have plenty of anxieties, but there was no sense in accumulating worries over THINGS! That kind of worry destroyed your character. Even an unused coat, hanging in your closet—it wasn't merely a useless thing that did nobody any good; it was an active agent of destruction to your life. And your LIFE must be saved, at all costs. What would it advantage a man—Jesus had demanded—if he were to gain the whole world, and lose his own life?”
― The Robe
― The Robe

“Money is the universal equivalent form of all commodities, which already show in their prices that they ideally represent a specific sum of money, expect to be transformed into money, and only receive the form in which they can be converted into use-values for their possessor by changing places with money.”
― Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Vol 2
― Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Vol 2

“My mind tried to conquer these feelings like ‘God is Love’. My heart intuitively created a space in my mind for the inception of the idea that ‘Love is God’.”
― Just Love Her
― Just Love Her

“If any of them fail me, I will flush them from an airlock into the pit of space, like an unwanted turd. Do I make myself clear?”
― Inara
― Inara
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