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“You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.”
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“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important.”
― Conversations with James Baldwin (Literary Conversations Series)
― Conversations with James Baldwin (Literary Conversations Series)
“I can't be a pessimist because I am alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So, I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive, whatever we must survive.”
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“Personal growth commences with an ego death. Self-pride blunts personal growth because the ego resists change. The ego wants to maintain the status quo by holding onto false notions of the self. The ego desires me to see all of my failures as someone else’s fault.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
“Most humans who have been reared with the creature comforts of the spiritually vacuous industrialized Western world will cease their search [for Truth] at the first signs of physical, psychic, or mundane resistance; or as soon as they encounter the difficulties of dissolving deeply entrenched self-delusions. Look at the world around you, and tell me that it appears to be filled with people genuinely in search of Truth!”
― The Zaum of Zeena: A Collection of Interviews, Essays, Quotes and Images by Zeena Schreck
― The Zaum of Zeena: A Collection of Interviews, Essays, Quotes and Images by Zeena Schreck
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