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Truth to tell, at any point in our lives we’ve forgotten more than we know about our own history. The world moves on, and so do we, and what was once important fades away. But that’s just the nature of memory. The events of our lives unfold
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“Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rain has the power to hypnotize.”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
“He wasn't going to send her to any hospital. He knew that now. At a hospital they'd just start shooting her full of drugs and tell her to adjust. What they wouldn't see is that she is adjusting. That's what the insanity is. She's adjusting to something. The insanity is the adjustment. Insanity isn't necessarily a step in the wrong direction, it can be an intermediate step in a right direction. It wasn't necessarily a disease. It could be part of a cure.”
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
“To define something is to subordinate it to a tangle of intellectual relationships. And when you do that you destroy real understanding.”
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
“Whenever you kill a human being you are killing a source of thought too. A human being is a collection of ideas, and these ideas take moral precedence over a society.”
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
“If you eliminate suffering from this world you eliminate life. There’s no evolution. Those species that don’t suffer don’t survive.”
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
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