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"Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second."
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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."
"My truth could be very different than your truth."
"We can't even remotely fathom that whatever is ending for us is always more than an ending."
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"I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."
"Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities."
"A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die."
"When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase."
"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."
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