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"I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves."
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"The important thing is not to survive, but to live."
"Scatter the names of all those who have ever lived over the surface of the knowable cosmos, and it would remain, for all purposes, as unnamed as it was before the small, anomalous flicker of human life appeared on this small, wildly atypical planet."
"Who am I to say that these things might nit be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary?"
"Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary people know its nature but don't live it and, if they think seriously about it, refuse to accept it. An enlightened person knows it, lives it, and accepts it completely. He eats, he drinks, and in due course he dies - but he eats with a difference, drinks with a difference, dies with a difference."
"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."
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"I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part."
"Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself."
"The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends."
"It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office."
"I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him."
"The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it."
"I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser."
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