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"The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it."
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"Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it."
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"Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly."
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"If your existence does not make any difference, you are no more than a dead body."
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"We live in the shadows of perception. Our dull awareness gives us no useful clues as to why we are here."
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"Disquietude that springs from the fundamental nature of being a human being is vaster and more encompassing than depression, which has a cause and therefore a cure."
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"All life depends upon the opportunistic interplay between elemental forces, the mysterious dualities of the numinous universe. Ying and yang forces of the natural world (lightness and darkness, fire and water, expansion and contraction) create tangible dualities that are complementary, interconnected, and independent. Without the firmament in the midst of the waters, without both sunshine and water, no life forms could subsist on this rocky orb. Without the rich soil surrounded by a canopy of an illimitable sky how could we feed ourselves, how could we breathe?"
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"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs."
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"This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These in pace, these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid of granite like a tomb, with this difference, that the dead man here was a living being, that soil which is but mud, that vault hole, those oozing walls, --what declaimers!"
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"Every sacred existence is history of time."
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"I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me."
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"They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are bad and must be burned. If they contain only the doctrine of the Koran, burn them anyway, for they are superfluous.' Our learned men have cited this reasoning as the height of absurdity. However, suppose Gregory the Great was there instead of Omar and the Gospel instead of the Koran. The library would still have been burned, and that might well have been the finest moment in the life of this illustrious pontiff."
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"A feeble body weakens the mind."
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"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
Books
"When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it."
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"Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back into oneself and listen to the voice of one's conscience in the silence of the passions? There you have true philosophy. Let us learn to be satisfied with that, and without envying the glory of those famous men who are immortalized in the republic of letters, let us try to set between them and us that glorious distinction which people made long ago between two great peoples: one knew how to speak well; the other how to act well."
Conscience
"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."
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"Base souls have no faith in great individuals."
Faith
"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."
Man
"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."
Nature
"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can."
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