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Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

by T.E. Lawrence

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A Separate God: The Christian Origins of Gnosticism

by Simone Pétrement

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KV’s Quotes

“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

tags: self-awareness, self-discovery, self-knowledge

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“I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I've been knocking from the inside.”
― Rumi

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“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
― Georges Bataille, Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille

tags: contradiction, truth

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“For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.”
― Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

tags: better, die, pain, suffer

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“But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.”
― Tom Robbins, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

tags: achievement, average, mediocrity

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