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"I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak."
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"I saw this moment as attached by threads to eternity and woven between all the other braided moments of my past and my future."
"How can we afford to live in the world in which one has to die [one day]? We are eternal."
"Understanding what it means to die, to sever oneself of the foolish hope for immortality, is what allows human beings the capability to appreciate simple pleasures and endure whatever hardships living a full life requires. Eternity is beautiful whereas time is unredeemable and problematic. Our faith, our hopes, and our love exist only in points of time. We discover eternity by avoiding the snares of prejudice and mental delusion, using the memory of whole civilizations to understand the past, and employing human consciousness to transcend fluctuations in time."
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops."
"Time couldn't kill me a century ago, and it won't in all the centuries ahead. I am the Philosophy that has been there since the birth of human intellect. And I shall live on forever through the inner cosmos of billions of generations, yet to come, while enriching every single soul it touches with its ever-glowing and flourishing purity."
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"I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity."
"I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing."
"I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people."
"My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak."
"Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds."
"As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing."
"My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language."
"It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease."
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