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"Doubt collapses onto us like a disaster; far from choosing it, we fall into it. And as we will to pull out of it, to trick it away, it never loses sight of us, for it is not even true that it collapses onto us - doubt was in us, and we were predestined to it...the abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive."
"Dance," said the Sheep Man. "Yougottadance. Aslonasthemusicplays. Yougottadance. Don'teventhinkwhy. Starttothink, yourfeetstop. Yourfeetstop, wegetstuck. Wegetstuck, you'restuck. Son'tpayanymind, nomatterhowdumb. Yougottakeepstep. Yougottalimberup. Yougottaloosenwhatbolteddown. Yougottauseallyougot. Weknowyour'retired, tiredanscrared. Happenstoeveryone, okay? Justdon'tletyourfeetstop."
"Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be. So the Galapagos Islands could be hell in one moment and heaven in the next, and Julius Caesar could be a statesman in one moment and a butcher in the next, and Ecuadorian paper money could be traded for food, shelter, and clothing in one moment and line the bottom of a birdcage in the next, and the universe could be created by God Almighty in one moment and by a big explosion in the next— and on and on."