Monica Arone
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isn’t life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it. Each bite of food, each particle of light entering the eye—the body can never be pure.
“As long as we define ourselves in terms of our pains and problems, we will never be free from them.”
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“The desert has mothered magic things before this.”
― Travels with Charley
― Travels with Charley
“There is no purity to bearing pain alone.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“Science ran too far ahead of us too quickly, and the people got lost in a mechanical wilderness, like children making over pretty things, gadgets, helicopters, rockets; emphasizing the wrong items, emphasizing machines instead of how to run the machines.”
― The Martian Chronicles
― The Martian Chronicles
“Go out in the world and fuck it up beautifully.”
― Make Trouble
― Make Trouble
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