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"The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'"
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"But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again."

"Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died."

"I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it."

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"If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it."

"When it is all too much; when the news is so bad meditation itself feels useless, and a single life feels too small a stone to offer on the altar of Peace, find a Human Sunrise. Find those people who are committed to changing our scary reality. Human sunrises are happening all over the earth, at every moment. People gathering, people working to change the intolerable, people coming in their robes and sandals or in their rags and bare feet, and they are singing, or not, and they are chanting, or not. But they are working to bring peace, light, compassion, to the infinitely frightening downhill slide of Human life."

"I don't know who tried to teach him what to do in the bedroom, but it must have been a furniture salesman."

"A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something."

"What is always needed in the appreciation of art, or life, is the larger perspective. Connections made, or at least attempted, where none existed before, the straining to encompass in one's glance at the varied world the common thread, the unifying theme through immense diversity, a fearlessness of growth, of search, of looking, that enlarges the private and the public world. And yet, in our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins."

"People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't."

"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
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