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The world would only cease to terrify me if I became the world. If I were the world, I wouldn't be afraid. If we are the world, we are moved by a delicate radar that guides.
To eat communion bread will be to taste the world's indifference, and to immerse myself in nothingness.
The Hour of the Star
Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.
The Hour of the Star
Everything kills everything else in some way.
The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre.
What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?
Everything hinges on how you look at things.
The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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