It saddens me beyond my tears that love is lost within the fears.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic agents, its yeast. But revolutions are made by fanatical men of action with one-track mind, geniuses in their ability to confine themselves to a limited field. They overturn the old order in a few hours or days, the whole upheaval takes a few weeks or at most years, but the fanatical spirit that inspired the upheavals is worshiped for decades thereafter, for centuries.
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Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully
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Memories images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us.
The fact is, that what de Sade was trying to bring to the surface of the conscious mind was precisely the thing that revolted that mind... From the very first he set before the consciousness things which it could not tolerate.
We spend so much time creating a façade of what we want to project to the world, we almost forget what we ourselves are truly about in the process.
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This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with and ending, but all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
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Apprentices Needed, Not DisciplesFor many, the knowledge of a Jesus, a Lao-tzu, a Buddha, or a Gandhi is complete and unassailable. But we do them and their vision a disservice when we follow them rather than using what they have taught to build upon as we strive toward our goal of a better society.
I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.
How curious it was, [..], that we humans had taken millions of year to crawl up out of the swamps and yet, within minutes of death, we were already tobogganing back down the slope.
There is a coherence in things, a stability; something.. Is immune from change and shines out.. In the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.
You have to set somebody free for them to return
They can send death at once, but life is slower..
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There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?
It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.
When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys
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What did you do with the time and talents i gave you? God's question..
Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?
Never underestimate someone else's pain.
The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.
Whatever life throws at me, I'll take with a smile upon my face and Nirvana's 'Bleach' on the stereo.
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As summer neared, as the evening lengthened there came to the wakeful, the hopeful, walking the beach, stirring the pool, imaginations of the strangest kind- of flesh turned to atoms which drove before the wind, of stars flashing in their hearts, of outwardly the scattered parts of the vision within. In those mirrors, the minds of men, in those pools of uneasy water, in which cloud forever and shadows form, dreams persisted; and it was impossible to resist the strange intimation which every gull, flower, tree, man and woman, and the white earth itself seemed to declare (but if you questioned at once to withdraw) that good triumph, happiness prevails, order rules, or to resist the extra ordinary stimulus to range hither and thither in search of some absolute good, some crystal of intensity remote from the known pleasures and familiar virtues, something alien to the processes of domestic life, single, hard, bright, like a diamond in the sand which would render the possessor secure. Moreover softened and acquiescent, the spring with their bees humming and gnats dancing threw her cloud about her, veiled her eyes, averted her head, and among passing shadows and fights of small rain seemed to have taken upon her knowledge of the sorrows of mankind.
It is common to represent a title, but inspiring to represent a purpose.
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Reality is such an elusive concept.
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