Quotes

"You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe." ~ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick Owning and maintaining a fraud had a way of gradually demoralizing one. ~ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnida. ~ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick A dry wind rustled, and around him the heaps of bones broke. ~ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick "It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?" ~ A Room With A View by E. M. Forster The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us. ~ A Room With A View by E. M. Forster This solitude oppressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong. ~ A Room With A View by E. M. Forster The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul. ~ A Room With A View by E. M. Forster "Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them." ~ A Room With A View by E. M. Forster "I like wind," he said. "A day when there is no wind seems to me DEAD. A windy day wakes me up." He gave a conscious laugh. "On a calm day I fall into day dreams." ~ Rainbow Valley by Lucy Maud Montgomery