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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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Personal Development
"If your existence does not make any difference, you are no more than a dead body."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"No one was created in vain."
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Personal Development
"We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation."
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Personal Development
"Life is in time; seconds, minutes and hours."
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"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
Future
"This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy."
Inspirational
"Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying."
Dying
"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
American
"In heaven an angel is nobody in particular."
Heaven
"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."
Soul
"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."
Act
"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
Man
"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him."
Society
"There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains."
Education
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