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“Death might appear to destroy the meaning in our lives, but in fact it is the very source of our creativity. As Kafka said, “The meaning of life is that it ends.” Death is the engine that keeps us running, giving us the motivation to achieve, learn, love, and create.”
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Dune
― Dune
“...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.”
― Miracle of the Rose
― Miracle of the Rose
“My heart to my mother, my cock to the whores, my head to the hangman.”
― Our Lady of the Flowers
― Our Lady of the Flowers
“Here and gone. That’s what it is to be human, I think—to be both someone and no one at once, to hold a particular identity in the world (our names, our place of origins, our family and affectional ties) and to feel that solid set of ties also capable of dissolution, slipping away, as we become moments of attention.”
― Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
― Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
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