I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane, and answering, “Of course I am—sanity is a compromise. Sanity is the thing that keeps one back.”
Aleister Crowley, The Diary of a Drug Fiend, Book I – Paradiso, III. Phaeton
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There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly … even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. … [The] need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. … Remember this. Try.
Tony Gilroy, Andor, s01e12
That poem of Browning owes much of its haunting charm to this very circumstance, that the reader is never told who Childe Roland is, or why he wants to get to the Dark Tower, or what he expects to find when he does get there. There is a skillfully constructed atmosphere of Giants, and Ogres, and Hunchbacks, and the rest of the apparatus of fairy-tales; but there is no trace of the influence of Bædeker in the style. Now this is really very irritating to anybody who happens to be seriously concerned to get to that tower. I remember, as a boy, what misery I suffered over this poem. Had Browning been alive, I think I would have sought him out, so seriously did I take the Quest.
Aleister Crowley, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Liber LXXI, The Voice of the Silence
Humans can forget anything. It’s okay to forget some things, because we are mortal and finite. But some things we have to remember. It’s important that we remember. Write to yourself something which will make you remember.
qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division [Amazon, Publisher, Author, Wiki]
Soon, you remember only what it wants you to remember.
Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Winterglass [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher, DriveThruFiction]
If reading is a craft that allows us to remember the common experience of humankind, it follows that totalitarian governments will try to suppress the memory held by the page. Under such circumstances, the reader’s struggle is against oblivion.
Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher]
The religion of humanity is a grand, a noble belief. To remember that each and every one has some claim to consideration, that the way to restrain from wrong-doing is through the human heart.
Lydia Leavitt, Bohemian Society [Bookshop, Amazon, Internet Archive]
And remember, dying is a serious business. If a man dies with a sin on his soul, he goes to Spain.
Trevanian, Shibumi: A Novel [Bookshop, Amazon, Author]
