"There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty."
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"Out of the chaos, the future emerges in harmony and beauty."
"All new learning looks at first like chaos."
"...chaos doesn't run the whole show."
"You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality."
"Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves."
"It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation."
"The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people."
"I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me."
"It was a pleasure to burn."
"Caress the detail, the divine detail."
"Chaos, when left alone, tends to multiply."
"Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential. Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it."
"I suppose I'll always be over-vulnerable, slightly paranoid."
"Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face."
"For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos."
"I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going."
"Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma."
"I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box."
"There are too many games now where there's too much structure and not enough of the chaos."