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The Captive Mind
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Fernando Pessoa
“Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.”
Fernando Pessoa

Sherwood Anderson
“I don't know what I shall do. I just want to go away and look at people and think.”
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Simone Weil
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
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Alan W. Watts
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
Alan Wilson Watts, The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts

Ursula K. Le Guin
“The unknown...the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought...The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
Ursula K. Le Guin

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