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“It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense”
― Valis
― Valis
“Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind.”
― The Broken God
― The Broken God
“Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise”
― The Broken God
― The Broken God
“And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally. ”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra - A Book For All And None
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra - A Book For All And None
“But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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