“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
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“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― The Tempest
― The Tempest
“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything; I begin just where I left off.”
― O Pioneers!
― O Pioneers!
“You don't even live once.”
― Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
― Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
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