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“Life isn't about finding yourself, or finding anything. Life is about creating yourself. And creating things.”
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“The madman is not only a beggar who thinks he is a king, but also a king who thinks he is a king.”
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“The usefulness of the useless is good news for artists, for art serves no useful purpose. It has to do with changing minds and spirits.”
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“The measuring of worth and success in the terms of time, and the insistent demand for assurances of a promising future, make it impossible to live freely both in the present and in the "promising" future when it arrives. For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.”
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“Thoreau got up each morning and walked to the woods as though he had never been where he was going to, so that whatever was there came to him like liquid into an empty glass. Many people taking such a walk would have their heads so full of other ideas that it would be a long time before they were capable of hearing or seeing. Most people are blinded by themselves.”
― Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
― Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
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