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“FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.”
― Doctor Sleep
― Doctor Sleep
“Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”
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“She rubbed a hand over her heart. It was like reading a book, she decided. You read the book and the words became scenes, the characters became people and they lived inside you. She had dreamed of Sol, she had read his stories, and it had opened up a space inside her, where he could exist.”
― The Raven Scholar
― The Raven Scholar
“Suffering builds character and impels you to penetrate life’s secrets. It’s the path of great artists, great religious leaders, great social reformers. The problem is not suffering per se, but rather our identification with our own ego: our divided, dualistic, cramped view of things. ‘We are too ego-centered,’ Suzuki tells Cage.’ The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow. We seem to carry it all the time from childhood up to the time we finally pass away.”
― Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
― Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
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