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We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.
“It’s a profoundly strange feeling, to stumble across someone whose desires are shaped so closely to your own, like reaching toward your reflection in a mirror and finding warm flesh under your fingertips. If you should ever be lucky enough to find that magical, fearful symmetry, I hope you’re brave enough to grab it with both hands and not let go.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn’t the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clearsightedness.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“Our true self remains deeply hidden, incognito, submerged beneath a web of mistaken identities.”
― Yoga and the Quest for the True Self
― Yoga and the Quest for the True Self
“I say we take our chances and live our lives the way we want.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
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