GNOMES AND APOTHEGMS

Tranquility can be reached only through delirium, just as the Yes can be spoken only as a No.

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By some accident of the universe, a long-established and widely-spread myth has taken place, step by step in the world of historical fact. As such, it is rendered utterly impotent and thrown readily into the cosmic trash bin.

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Mankind is a plague, one whose purpose is not to infect but to be itself made sick by Cure.

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The pike being driven into the back of my head is Solitude; the one for which I reach in front of me (and which, unbeknownst to me, is identical to the first) is Companionship.

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I believe I possess a great will, one that can be expressed only through inertia and hibernation.

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... the mystic, ever the kleptomaniac, sneaks in through the back door.