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Lao Tzu

"Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil."

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"Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil."

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"She's beauty and she's the beast, rolled into one."

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"At such times, under an abated sun; afloat all day upon smooth, slow heaving swells; seated in his boat, light as a birch canoe; and so sociably mixing with the soft waves themselves, that like hearth-stone cats they purr against the gunwale; these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang."

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"A thorn is a rose's friend but a gardener's enemy."

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"Besides, I seemed to hold two lives-the life of thought, and that of reality; and, provided the former was nourished with a sufficiency of the strange necromantic joys of fancy, the privileges of the latter might remain limited to daily bread, hourly work, and a roof of shelter."

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"The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle."

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"Sometimes to love people, I must completely avoid them. Sometimes, to be strong, I must completely fall apart. Sometimes, to create, I must completely destroy."

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"People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox."

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"Black and white, severally incomplete and at the same time completely several."

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"Nothing worldly will ever become the Self (the Soul). The Self [the Soul] will never become worldly. Both are separate things."

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"Sex and death: the front door and the back door of the world."

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"Following the Universal Way means practicing selflessness and extending virtue to the world unconditionally. In this way one not only eliminates the heavy contamination accumulated throughout many lifetimes but may also bring about the possibility of restoring one's original divine nature and become an integral being of the multi-universe."
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