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“You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing I learned. If you take in someone else’s poison – thinking you can cure them by sharing it – you will instead store it within you.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
“This world is better than Utopia because - and follow this point carefully - you can never live in Utopia. Utopia is always somewhere else. That's the very definition of Utopia.”
― Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth about Reality
― Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth about Reality
“There is God only in the desert, he wanted to acknowledge that now. Outside of this there was just trade and power, money and war.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
“You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.”
― Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma
― Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma
“A woman should never learn to sew, and is she can she shouldn't admit to it”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
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