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"Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is."
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"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump, you may be freeing him from being a camel."
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"Light is shallow; darkness is infinitely deep. Light is always bounded, it has boundaries. Darkness has no boundaries, it is unbounded. Light comes and goes; darkness always is. When there is light you cannot see it. When light is not there you can see it. But it is always there; you cannot cause it. Light has a cause. You burn the fire, you put on wood. When the wood is finished the light will be gone. It is caused, hence it is an effect. But darkness is not caused by anything, it is not an effect. It is uncaused eternity."
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"Life is nether food nor drink. But the faith of a dance dream."
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"When someone beats a rug,the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it."
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"The sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water."
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"The moon is always holding the stars, you must do the same."
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"Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond."
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"The moon is too old, the flower is too old;even the sunset is not enough. The only relevant metaphor for you is your mirror image."
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"Let your heart be your eye."
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"Who worries for dying? If I close my eyes tonight, I will either dream, or not, or my eyes will open and I will be here again. And if none of those happen, and I do not wake? Who worries for dying?"
Mortality
"Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I've never led an army, I am a wanderer. I cradle 'The Odyssey' nights while the moon is waning, as if it were the sweet body of a woman."
Literature
"In life, more than in anything else, it isn't easy to end up alive."
Life
"It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there being only life, the young cling to it, they fear death... And they should! ...For they are in life."
Life
"The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death."
Beauty
"As for men, they must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand only one thing for him... Honor. A man's honor should be more sacred to him than his life - especially in our age, a time when very few men know what honor is."
Honor
"Her body accepted my brutal seed and took it to swell within, just as the patient earth accepts a falling fruit into its tender soil to cradle and nourish it to grow. Came a time, just springtime last, our infant child pushed through the fragile barrier of her womb. Her legs branched out, just as the wood branches out from these eternal trees around us; but she was not hardy as they. My wife groaned with blood and ceased to breathe. Aye!, a scornful eve that bred the kind of pain only a god can withstand."
Tragedy
"There was no world, no land, no god or heaven or earth outside of their two bodies naked and trembling in the act of love."
Passion
"She is my morning, she is my evening; we have a love that blooms over and again, more beautifully each time than the last. You will see that we are not lovers like others, for whom love is both a punishment and a gift. Our love has never punished, only rewarded. Such love therein lies the eudaimonic life."
Love
"A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must. A man to be happy, however, must yearn for his woman more than his liberty. This is the rightful order."
Balance
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