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"It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere."
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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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"No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist."
"Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession."
"If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable."
"No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily."
"Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue."
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