“(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.”

—  Philip K. Dick, book The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle (1962)

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