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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 not a discrete phenomenon it is a part of an intelligent cosmic field. It is a cosmic dance."
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"He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree."
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"There are two important days in your life. The day you discovered you were alive and the day you forgot about it."
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"Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part."
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"You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by which you set such store your doing, however you may choose to tell it. Its shape was forced in the void at the onset and all talk of what might otherwise have been is senseless for there is no otherwise. Of what could it be made? Where be hid? Or how make its appearance? The probability fo the actual is absolute. That we have no power to guess it out beforehand makes it no less certain. That we may imagine alternate histories means nothing at all."
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"Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him."
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"But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man."
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"To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself."
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"It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality."
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"When we get down to the very basics of human life we find that we arrive to take a ride on spaceship Earth for several decades and then we leave."
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"She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . . I am miserable and bitter at heart, and old fears are rising up in me so that everything I do makes everything worse."
Spiritual
"If you thought dead was just dead, then you wouldn't have to worry about any of this."
Philosophy
"We are supposed to believe [capitalist ideology] was the champion of freedom and prosperity in the epic struggle called the Cold War. If there was such a champion, might it not have been freedom itself, as realized in the institutional forms of democracy? This is not how the story has been told. We are t believe it was an economic system, capitalism, that arrayed its forces against its opposite, communism, and rescued all we hold dear. Yet in the new era... [capitalism] has shown itself very ready to devour what we hold dear, if the list can be taken to include culture, education, the environment, and the sciences, as well as the peace and well-being of our fellow citizens."
Society
"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."
Self
"It's hard to find time to think about Kansas."
Reflection
"Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters."
Love
"When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists."
Education
"I could have married again while I was still young. A congregation likes to have a married minister, and I was introduced to every niece and sister-in-law in a hundred miles. In retrospect, I'm very grateful for whatever reluctance it was that kept me alone until your mother came. Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember it as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what I was waiting for."
Reflection
"It has been my experience that guilt can burst through the smallest breach and cover the landscape, and abide in it in pools and danknesses, just as native as water."
Emotion
"Our humanity consists in the fact that we do more than survive, that a great part of what we do confers no survival benefit in terms presumably salient from the Pleistocene point of view."
Life
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