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“Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

“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

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

“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