"The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin."
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"Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance."
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"All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized."
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"Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts."
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"No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc."
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"A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees."
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"Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence."
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"Echo is very important to me. I love the repetition of motifs, or the slight alteration of what's been said before. This is part of how one creates a mood, a psychological caul, in fact, around the reader."
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"In fact nothing is said that has not been said before."
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"Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art."
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"If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance."
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"It's my belief that one of the unconscious reasons which underlies the odd attitude of the establishment toward hallucinogens is the fact that they bring the mystery to the surface as an individual experience. In other words, you do not understand the psychedelic experience by getting a report from Time magazine or even the Economist. You only understand the psychedelic experience by having it."
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"This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies."
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"Just because you have a nut theory it doesn't mean that you agree with other nut theories. In fact, it often makes you very hostile to them. After all, there's a limited pool there that we're all after."
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"In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected."
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"Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument."
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"But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them."
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"One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art."
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"Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity."
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"Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord."
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