“You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
“And the terrible thing, the terrible thing is, but the good thing too, the saving grace, is that if something happened to one of us--excuse me for saying this--but if something happened to one of us tomorrow, I think the other one, the other person, would grieve for a while, you know, but then the surviving party would go out and love again, have someone else soon enough. All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory.”
― What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
― What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
“My big fish must be somewhere.”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
“In reality people would sacrifice anything rather than their negative emotions.”
― The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution
― The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution
“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.”
― The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts
― The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts
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