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"Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second."
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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."
"So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him."
"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."
"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."
"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?"
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"From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy."
"You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature."
"Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities."
"When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase."
"I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."
"A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die."
"Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine."
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