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There are days when everything I see seems to me charged with meaning: messages it would be difficult for me to communicate to others, define, translate into words, but which for this very reason appear to me decisive.
“It’s very simple: what are we gaining—excuse me if I’m repeating myself—what are we gaining by a pragmatism that robs our life of poetry, dreams, mysticism—are these all lies? What is truth? Can you tell me that? We can only struggle along by using symbols, and we change them as we alter our views. By the way, let’s not neglect our drinks.”
― Mysteries
― Mysteries
“There is no reason to be afraid of death – when we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. This, roughly, is how Epicurus put it a long time ago. I tend to think of it as like sharing a flat with a lodger you never see. The flat has two rooms, and two doors. Whenever you go through one door, the lodger goes out by the other.”
― The School of Night
― The School of Night
“there some great wisdom to be gained by calibrating exactly how worthless a mind I have?”
― Pathfinder
― Pathfinder
“Metaphorical flavor doesn’t influence reality,” said the expendable.”
― Pathfinder
― Pathfinder
“Nearness is undemanding and therefore unproductive in a way. What we know is near to us – no effort required. What we don’t know is remote from us, at a distance, we’re not in the same place as what we don’t know, and so we have to traverse that distance in order to learn. Longing requires distance – longing for another place, another state, another person, another set of things we know – and if there’s one thing that drives us, individually and collectively, it’s longing.”
― The Wolves of Eternity
― The Wolves of Eternity
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