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"I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth."
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"Sometimes things that appear completely irreconcilable and mutually exclusive serve a shared purpose that could not be achieved except through their contradiction."
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"I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth."
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"Thus it is said:The path into the light seems dark,the path forward seems to go back,the direct path seems long,true power seems weak,true purity seems tarnished,true steadfastness seems changeable,true clarity seems obscure,the greatest are seems unsophisticated,the greatest love seems indifferent,the greatest wisdom seems childish.The Tao is nowhere to be found.Yet it nourishes and completes all things."
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"Smartass Disciple: Please teach me about the truth, master.Master of Stupidity: Hmmm...tell me about your sexperience!"
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"From "Wetness and Water"How does a part of the world leave the world?How can wetness leave water?Do not try to put out a fireby throwing on more fire.Do not wash a wound with blood.No matter how fast you run,your shadow more than keeps up.Sometimes it's in front.Only full, overhead sundiminishes your shadow.But that shadow has been serving you.What hurts you blesses you.Darkness is your candle.Your boundaries are your quest."
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"After all, these were blood drinkers, beings who spoke gently, liked poetry, and yet killed mortals all the time."
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"Being here with him is safety; it's a cave, where we huddle together while the storm goes on outside. This is a delusion, of course. This room is one of the most dangerous places I could be."
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"I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive."
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"Then I glanced at the ring on my finger.The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from-but where did all you zombies come from?I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I did once-and you all went away.So I crawled into bed and whistled out the light.You aren't really there at all. There isn't anybody but me-Jane-here alone in the dark.I miss you dreadfully!"
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"If everything is possible, then it is also possible that something is impossible."
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"He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin."
Romance
"Christianity made us think there's one heaven."
Christianity
"It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171)."
Absurdity
"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."
Desire
"Home is a desk. The amalgamation of a dream. Home is the cats, my books, and my work never done. All the lost things that may one day call to me, the faces of my children who will one day call to me. Maybe we can't draw flesh from reverie nor retrieve a dusty spur, but we can gather the dream itself and bring it back uniquely whole."
Home
"Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply."
Art
"In Washington Square, one could still feel the characters of Henry James and the presence of the author himself. Entering the perimeters of the white arch, one was greeted by the sounds of bongos and acoustic guitars, protest singers, political arguments, activists leafleting, older chess players challenged by the young. This open atmosphere was something I had not experienced, simple freedom that did not seem to be oppressive to anyone."
Freedom
"I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works."
Insight
"I never thought I was gonna live to 30."
Thought
"It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was."
Literature
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