"The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre."
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"If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without."
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"Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer."
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"Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living thus, as a river, one experiences life to the full, flows along with the current of life, and dies in order to live again as an ocean."
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"I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing."
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"For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter."
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"...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing."
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"Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets."
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"When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . . The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing. . . ."
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"Words are loneliness."
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"Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane."
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"The enchanting, and sometimes terrifying, thing is that the world can be so many things to so many different souls. That it can be, and is, all these things at once and the same time."
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"Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything."
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"I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."
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"Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself."
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"I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life preservers around their necks, and more often than not it is the life preserver, which sinks them. Nobody can drown in the ocean of reality who voluntarily gives herself up to the experience. Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge."
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"Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness."
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"Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern."
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"Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves."
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"For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn."
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