"I am sure it is everyone's experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew."

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"I am sure it is everyone's experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't."

"What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"

"You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need."

"If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest."

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"So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state."

"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof."

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"When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes."

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