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- God
is the good in people.
- Why
the love affair mostly collapses is the mystery- the
half-grasped but never spoken idea that may be, when you got
right down to the place where the cheese binds, there was no
such thing as love, no such thing as union, that each soul stood
alone & ultimately defied rationality. That was the mystery.
And no matter how well you thought you knew your partner, you
occasionally ran into blank walls or fell into pits. And some
times (rarely, thanks god) you ran into a full-fledged pocket of
alien strangeness, something like the clear-air turbulence that
can buffet an airliner for no reason at all. An attitude or
belief which you had never suspected, one so peculiar (at least
to you) that it seemed nearly psychotic. And then you trod
lightly, if you valued your affair & your peace of mind; you
tried to remember that anger at such a discovery was the
providence of fools who really believed it was possible for one
mind to know another.
- The
death is, except for childbirth, the most natural thing in the
world. Taxes are not so sure; human conflicts are not; the
conflicts of society are not; boom & bust are not. In the
end there is only the clock, and the markers, which became
eroded & nameless in the passage of time. Even sea turtles
& the giant sequoias had to buy out someday.
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Experience
is of no ethical value. It is merely the name men give to their
mistakes. Moralists has, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of
warning, has claimed for it a mode of warning, has claimed for
it a certain ethical efficiency in the formation of character,
as praised it as something that thought us what to follow &
showed us what to avoid. But there is no motive power in
experience. It is as little of an active cause as conscience
itself. All that is really demonstrated is our future would be
the same of our past & that the sin we had done once. And
with the loathing, we would do many times & with joy.
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The
only way communism can be made to work is you have capitalist to
pay the bill and manage the show.
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Hard
where the first have been soft, hot where it had been warm and
savagely urgent where it had been gentle and lingering.
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Its
mere important to the survival of the human race, which is true,
we are all in danger of drowning in our own shits.
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Every
catastrophe is merely a problem looking for a brilliant
solution.
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As
if age in people, as if cheese was a plus.
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To
be too original is to be laughed at.
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I’m
just wondering about the parallel evolution of dung bettles and
shit. For instance; which came first, man or veneral disease? I
suppose host always have to precede their parasite, but is that
really true? May be man was invented by viruses, to give them
the convenient place to live.
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The
stain in honor wiped out by blood.
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If
I console her she’ll say I’m hypocrite, if not I’m a
prick.
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I
fail not of any intrinsic weakness or lack of will, coz my own
desire are hopelessly divided.
- Conscience
and cowardice r really the same thing. Conscience is the trade
name of the firm. That’s all.
- Never
dream of considering whether the idea is right or wrong. The
only thing to consider of any importance is whether one believe
it oneself. Now, the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to
do with the sincerity of man who expresses it. Indeed, the
probabilities r that the more insincere the man is the more
purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will
not be coloured by his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.
- I
will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart
shall not be put under their microscope. There is too much of
myself in the thing.
- I’ve
given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were
a flower to put in her hair, a bit of decoration to charm her
vanity, an ornament for a summer day.
- Those
who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the
faithless who knows the tragedies.
- One’s
own soul & the passion of one’s friends- those r the
fascinating things in life.
- Humanity
takes itself too seriously. It is world’s original sin. If the
caveman had known how to laugh history would have been
different.
- To
get back one’s youth, one has merely to repeat one’s
follies.
- Nowadays
people know the price of everything & the value of nothing.
- No
woman is a genius. Women r decorative sex. They never have
anything to say but they say it charmingly. Women represent the
triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph
of mind over matter.
- The
people who loves only once in their lives r really the shallow
people. What they call their loyalty & their fidelity I call
either the lethargy of a custom or their lack of imagination.
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the
life of the intellect- simply confession of failures.
Faithfulness! I must analyze it someday. The passion for
property is in it. There r many things that we would throw away
if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
- The
only artist who r personally delightful, r bad artist. Good
artists exist simply in what they make, & consequently r
perfectly uninteresting in what they r. A great poet, a really
great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But
inferior poets r absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhythm
r, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having
published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite
irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The
others write the poetry that they dare not realize.
- When
one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self,
& always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world
calls a romance.
- To
die, it sometime occurs as perhaps the one true pleasure that
life reserved for mankind.
- No
doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world but it is only
once removed from the true world.
- Messianic
passion for education is character.
- They
would fain inquire the length of my journey, its object &
the probable time of my reason but indulge get to my harmless
love of mystery interrogates me only by a look.
- Man
or boy, woman or girl, they have for a moment taken hold of the
things that makes the mature life in the modern world possible.
- If
u r here then that’s because of ur thought, as u think
everyone r yours then they r & if not then they r not.
- Why
be given a body if u have to keep it shut up in a case like a
rare, rare fiddle.
- Medicines
would be required only for the study of diseases as natural
phenomena, & not for their cure. If anything is treated, let
it be the cause of disease rather then the disease itself.
Remove all the principal cause, physical labor & there will
be no disease. I do not acknowledge the science that cures.
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