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God! Whose hand was I holding?


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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.



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I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.



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Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.



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So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.



Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.



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I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.



I delight in what I fear.

I delight in what I fear.



The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.



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We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.





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