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Zdroj: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Zdroj: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974), Chapter 21 (p. 171)
Zdroj: VALIS
Kontext: "Fear,” Jason said, “can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you're afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back.”'
“How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.”
Zdroj: Radio Free Albemuth
“I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile.”
Zdroj: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Varianta: To live is to be hunted.
Zdroj: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974), Chapter 27 (p. 213)
Zdroj: Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
“…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.”
Zdroj: Counter-Clock World
Zdroj: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Zdroj: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“For each person there is a sentence — a series of words — which has the power to destroy him”
VALIS (1981)
Kontext: For each person there is a sentence — a series of words — which has the power to destroy him … another sentence exists, another series of words, which will heal the person. If you're lucky you will get the second; but you can be certain of getting the first: that is the way it works. On their own, without training, individuals know how to deal out the lethal sentence, but training is required to deal out the second.
“Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.”
“It’s a lost art,” Hank said. “Maybe there’s an instruction manual on it.”
Zdroj: A Scanner Darkly (1977), Chapter 4 (p. 56)
“It's the basic condition of life to be required to violate our own identity.”
Zdroj: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Zdroj: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane.”
Zdroj: The Man in the High Castle (1962)
“The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?”
Zdroj: Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
"How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" (1978)
Zdroj: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Zdroj: The Man in the High Castle (1962)
Kontext: When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things.... I must be scientific.
