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A man experiences bizarre visions that lead him on a quest to uncover a divine entity and the true nature of reality.

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The symbols of the divine initially show up at the trash stratum.

Philip K. Dick

divinity

The Empire never ended.

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empire

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

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paranoia

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words.

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realitymanipulation

So we fell, bodies falling through space, our hands outstretched toward the stars.

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fallingstars

The power of the book lies in its power to turn you into the protagonist.

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bookspower

We are all irretrievably detained in the illusion of time.

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timeillusion

The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one.

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empireviolence

Perhaps we all have a secret we keep hidden from ourselves.

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secrets

I am a beam of light, a star of space, a particle of time.

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lightspacetime