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“It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.”
― Interglacial: New and Selected Poems & Aphorisms
― Interglacial: New and Selected Poems & Aphorisms
“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
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“I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if I felt, too, God knows how well within my skin. Yet the soul maintains its deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds.”
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“Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains—except kill it.”
― The Art of Loving
― The Art of Loving
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
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