And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.

~ Dean Koontz

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Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.

~ Dean Koontz

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You are reformed, you may be a better man, but you are not a different man. How can you convince yourself of such a thing when you are so conversant with the theology of your faith? From one end of this life to the other, you carry with you all that you have done. Absolution grants you forgiveness for it, but does not expunge the past. The man you were still lives within you, repressed by the man you have struggled to become.

~ Dean Koontz

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I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

~ Dean Koontz

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More likely, they would just cease to exist.That's death.No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.

~ Dean Koontz

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