"There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it."
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"Every day the choice is presented to us, to live up to the spirit that is in us, or deny it."
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"We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars."
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"When you travel often, you will be addicted to it forever."
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"have you ever seen a genius out there looking for a job? it's the saddest thing in the world. no one will hire him. there is only one place where he is always welcome- at the bottom."
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"What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind."
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"All growth is a leap in the dark."
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"Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it"
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"The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded."
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"To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death always a step in advance. To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act as if the past were dead and the future unrealizable."
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"What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin-- to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I'm sure of it."
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"The light of Greece opened my eyes, penetrated my pores, expanded my whole being."
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"On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama."
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"Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their comfortable grooves and imagine that the status quo will least forever or else are so frightened it won't, that they have retreated into their mental bomb shelters to wait it out."
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"We live at the edge of the miraculous."
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"The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts."
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"It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd."
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"As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance."
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"There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy."
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"A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum."
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