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Everything kills everything else in some way.
The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre.
What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?
Everything hinges on how you look at things.
The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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