“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
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“All who are capable of absorption in an inward passion must have experienced at times the strange feeling of unreality in common objects, the loss of contact with daily things, in which the solidity of the outer world is lost, and the soul seems, in utter loneliness, to bring forth, out of its own depths, the mad dance of fantastic phantoms which have hitherto appeared as independently real and living.”
― Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
― Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
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“The greatness of man is in being a bridge and not a goal: what can be loved in man is that he is a transit and a sunset.”
― Thus spoke Zarathustra
― Thus spoke Zarathustra
“in the words of an Irish guide, when pointing out to a traveller several places which he was not wanting to find,—"Well, then, none of them's it.”
― Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards
― Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards
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