“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
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Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose published work during his lifetime was almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states. In his later works, Dick's thematic focus strongly reflected his personal interest in metaphysics and theology. He often drew upon his own life experiences and addressed the nature of drug abuse, paranoia and schizophrenia, and transcendental experiences in novels such as A Scanner Darkly and VALIS. Source and more information: [Wikipedia (EN)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick)
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“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
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“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
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“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....”
“To live is to be haunted.”
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“If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”
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“No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.”
“This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.”
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“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak...”
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“The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everyth...”
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“Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked.”
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“They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep Him.”
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“Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.”
“We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine.”
“Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.' 'Will you be all right?' 'I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.”
“Grief reunites you with what you've lost. It's a merging; you go with the loved thing or person that's going away. You follow it a far as you can go. But finally,the grief goes away and you...”
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“The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.”
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“Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at...”
“The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?”
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“but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of how it could be, a step from an almost certain fatal cliff...”
“I mean, after all, you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's sort of a bad beginni...”
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