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There is evil! It's actual, like cement.
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
Dilemma of a civilized man; body mobilized but danger obscure.
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane.
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
This is an artifact and that was a relic. This is alive in the now, whereas that merely remained.
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation?
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
This hypnagogic condition. Attention-faculty diminished so that twilight state obtains; world seen merely in symbolic, archetypal aspect, totally confused with unconscious material.
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
To save one life, Mr. Tagomi had to take two. The logical, balanced mind cannot make sense of that. A kindly man like Mr. Tagomi could be driven insane by the implications of such reality.
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate — confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small...and you will escape the jealousy of the great.
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
Life is short. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. Here I stand. But no longer.
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
[Fiction] Appeals to the base lusts that hide in everyone no matter how respectable on the surface.
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope. Falling into an interminable ennui.
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
I will never fully understand; that is the nature of such creatures. Or is this Inner Truth now, this that is happening to me? I will wait. I will see. Which it is. Perhaps it is both.
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
We have entered a Moment when we are alone. We cannot get assistance, as before. Well, Mr. Tagomi thought, perhaps that too is good. Or can be made good. One must still try to find the Way.
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined...or one great figure...or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.
The Man in the High Castle (1962)