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"Physical action [paudgalik kriya] will give only worldly fruits; it will not go in vain. If you plant sugar cane, you will eat sweet food and if you plant bitter gourd, you will eat bitter food. Plant whichever taste appeals to you and if you want liberation [Moksha], then don't plant anything. Stop sowing seeds altogether."
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"I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems."
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"A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn't open to anywhere good."
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"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."
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"This world is not without causes. There is Moksha [ultimate liberation] when one's causes stops. There is Moksha where everyone's 'claim' is completed. Without a cause, effect does not happen."
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"Don't speak of action [effect]. Don't serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause."
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"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."
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"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."
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"I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all."
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"Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future."
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"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
Dream
"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
Dream
"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"
Nature
"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."
Power
"It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."
Fact
"The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world."
Death
"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
Beauty
"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"
Death
"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."
Genius
"That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful."
Beauty
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