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This spending of the best part of one’s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet.
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
He felt a dreadful longing to get back on the couch and turn the Machine on, despite all the many reasons that would be a terrible idea. Unspace had always horrified him, an enemy he set himself against every time he did his job. But now he heard the Sirens calling from those unreal depths. What truths you could learn! The Machine had turned his entire perspective inside out. His hands were shaking just thinking about it. They made me an addict to revelation.
Eyes of the Void
Adrian Tchaikovsky
I still had that child-part of me that insisted that, if I ignored something, then it would go away. It was a tactic that seldom worked with imaginary horrors, let alone real ones.
Cage of Souls
Adrian Tchaikovsky
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