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"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."
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"Limitations can be reasonably expanded. We are constantly challenging our limitations. But a hobbled mind is not going anywhere."
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"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
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"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."
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"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
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"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."
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"Refuse to react to any angry actions."
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"Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them."
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"We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more."
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"Immediate gratification is a dream killer."
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"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
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"All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together."
Dream
"You can't teach the old maestro a new tune."
Wisdom
"Says, Rahula! Rahula! Face of Glory! Universe chawed and swallowed!"
Imagination
"He had become completely mad in his movements; He seemed to be doing everything at the same time. It was a shaking of the head, up and down, sideways; jerky, vigorous hands; quick walking, sitting, crossing the legs, uncrossing, getting up, rubbing the hands, rubbing his fly, hitching his pants, looking up and saying 'Am,' and sudden slitting of the eyes to see everywhere; and all the time he was grabbing me by the ribs and talking, talking."
Psychology
"Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they want anything but serene understanding of just what there is, which is after all so much."
Reflection
"Here I was at the end of America - no more land - and now there was nowhere to go but back."
Life
"The stars are fixed in rooftops like ink."
Nature
"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."
Life
"Never dreaming, was I, poor Jack Duluoz, that the soul is dead. That from Heaven grace descends . . . No Doctor Pisspot Poorpail to tell me; no example inside my first and only skin. That love is the heritage, and cousin to death. That the only love can only be the first love, the only death the last, the only life within, and the only word . . . choked forever."
Love
"Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the usual thing for campuses and college people to think whenever a real man appears on the scene - colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstasy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization."
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