"Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do."
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"Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language."
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"Whatever enchants also guides and protects."
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"Of course I'm a fake. We're all fakes on this whole world, pretending to be something we're not. We are not just bodies walking around, not just atoms, molecules. We are unkillable, undestroyable ideas of the IS, no matter how much we believe otherwise."
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"We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it to gravel, we can shape it into glory. Examples from every other life are left for us to see, lifeworks finished and unfinished, guiding and warning. Near the end our sculpture is nearly finished, and we can smooth and polish what we started years before. We can make our progress then, but to do it we must see past the appearances of age."
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"The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice."
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"The world's crazy, when it comes to beauty."
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"Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy?"
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"I AM! YOU ARE! AND LOVE: IS ALL: THAT MATTERS!"
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"By your choice dwell you now in the world which you have created. What you hold in your heart shall be true, and what you most admire, that shall you become."
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"Good and evil are not what our parents told us, not what our church tells us, or our country, not what anybody else tells us! All of us decide good and evil for ourselves, automatically, by choosing what we want to do!"
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"Mortalhood is a fine state to visit, but you'd better not call it home."
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"You are led, when you share your loves, to an enchanted life of inner happiness, which unsharing others cannot know."
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"Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true."
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"A drug for everything is madness. Legal or not, prescribed or not, over-counter under-counter bought for blood on street-corners-every pill separates us from knowing our own completion and from being taught by what's true."
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"Every word that judges value is circular. 'Good' is 'right' is 'proper' is 'just' is 'good'. But check the examples, and they're not circular at all: Every one says 'makes me happy'."
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"You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are."
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"Thanks to you, I always am so happy. Now I want to give you all the happiness on your birthday."
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"What a story that would make! How many men and women go through the same rivers, menaced by the same sharp clichés, the same jagged dangers that have threatened us! If the idea stands up, I thought, it would be worth uncovering the typewriter! How Richard-years-ago would have wanted to know: What happens when we set off searching for a soulmate who doesn't exist, and find her?"
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"I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone."
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