Was it probably true that reasoning beings were equal? It seemed more like a belief than a fact, even if I agreed with it. If you followed logic all the way back to its origin, did you inevitably end up at point of illogic, an article of faith?

The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone.

The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.

Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing.

I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.

The world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods.

My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.