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“Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.”
― On Self-Respect
― On Self-Respect
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― The Canterville Ghost
― The Canterville Ghost
“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”
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“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
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“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
― All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
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