“I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked door. The fear is for what is still to be lost.”
Joan Didion
Joan Didion
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“It frightens me when people try to grab at us like that. I can’t sit still and just let people watch me and talk to me and ask me questions. You see,” she said again, as though trying to moderate her words and explain, “They want to pull us back, and start us all over again just like them and doing the things they want to do and acting the way they want to act and saying and thinking and wanting all the things they live with us every day. […]
Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman
Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman
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Death is the great Teacher, stern, cold, inexorable, irresistible; whom the collected might of the world cannot stay or ward off.
Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
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