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Josh Skousen
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“Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
“Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.”
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“Art manifests itself in paradoxical ways. At times it creates and at times it gets created!”
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“But there’s a Sufi story that challenges the notion that people believe only because they need an opiate. Rabe’a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered, ‘I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
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“The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
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