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"I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence."
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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 too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly."
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"If your existence does not make any difference, you are no more than a dead body."
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"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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"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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"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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"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs."
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"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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"Every sacred existence is history of time."
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"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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"Suspense is worse than disappointment."
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"Dare to be honest and fear no labor."
Fear


"Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings."
Dying


"Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!"
Man


"Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects."
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"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing."
Politics


"I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence."
Existence


"Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve."
Character


"Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!"
Family


"The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn."
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