One of my favorite plot points of any story and a quote I think about frequently in today's climate

“I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.”

“The new light seems to pour from all directions across the skull; the whole universe falls into pattern like the stray pieces in a jigsaw puzzle assembled by magic at one stroke. There is an answer to every question: doubts and conflicts are a matter of the tortured past - a past already remote, when one had lived in dismal ignorance in the tasteless, colourless world of those who don’t know. Nothing henceforth can disturb the convert’s inner peace and serenity — except the occasional fear of losing faith again, losing thereby what alone makes life worth living, and falling back into the outer darkness, where there is is wailing and gnashing of teeth.”

For Me…The Best Line in any Book is “Big Bands,Broom Bands,Pig Bands,Boom Bands” from Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

What Does it Mean?:

It Means Hitler Evokes a Sense of his Usual Self Calling Everyone around him Fools and Comparing them to a Loud Band,or A Group of Bands in Particular said Phrasing,To Him they are also Very Noisy,Devoid of Filth,Dirty and Wants to Blow them up

How is it So Good?:

It’s Got a Good Rhythm and Flow to It,It is a Punchy Insult,But May sound Too Soft for Some,He Made it Partly Punchy Partly soft for Mainstream and Non Mainstream Audiences

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NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.

OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.

NOVEMBER, n. The eleventh twelfth of a weariness.

Oh, to be loved.

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Is it possible that you do not know that comparisons of wit with wit, valour with valour, beauty with beauty, birth with birth, are always odious and unwelcome?

milk and honey by rupi kaur

just finished this and that quote hit different. feels like permission to not be okay with being neutral about everything, if that makes sense? does anyone else get that from haig's writing where it's like he just gets the mess of existing as a person

“Since the stars are pure perception, are purely visible without any possibility of becoming tangible, they need constantly to demonstrate their reality, if possible every night. That is the paradox of an imaginary system which needs to be real in order to generate all its images.

Now, look at our own black, immutable sky, our rock. It’s exactly the same. Points of darkness replace points of light. It is we who are the stars, the living memory of our lives, lived without days or nights on the margins of time. Meaning continues to exist however, whether or not there is a God or a sky. It may be that to go on believing in ourselves demands an extra dose of energy from us, but we do not regret it. We dream a lot, because we sleep so much.“

“Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.”

The environmental descriptions in the book are also flooring. I posted my favorite passage in [r/ProsePorn](r/ProsePorn)

What is the most powerful quotes you've ever read in a book?