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“Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.”
― Letters to Allen Ginsberg 1953-1957
― Letters to Allen Ginsberg 1953-1957
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“since the thing perhaps is
to eat flowers and not to be afraid”
― E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962
to eat flowers and not to be afraid”
― E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962
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