"I Have Learned Why People Work So Hard To Succeed: It Is Because They Envy The Things Their Neighbors Have. But It Is Useless. It Is Like Chasing The Wind....It Is Better To Have Only A Little, With Peace Of Mind, Than Be Busy All The Time With Both Hands, Trying To Catch The Wind."

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"I Have Learned Why People Work So Hard To Succeed: It Is Because They Envy The Things Their Neighbors Have. But It Is Useless. It Is Like Chasing The Wind....It Is Better To Have Only A Little, With Peace Of Mind, Than Be Busy All The Time With Both Hands, Trying To Catch The Wind."

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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

"So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him."

"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."

"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth."

"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."

"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?"

"Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us."

"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

"Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom."

"It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth."

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"There are a hundred thousand useless words in the English language but they come in handy in college football yells."

"English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though."

"We were awfully poor. But we had a lot of things that money can't buy . . . like unpaid bills."

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