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Franz Kafka
“Every thing you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.”
Franz Kafka, Kafka's Selected Stories: A Norton Critical Edition

“Nothing at all is to be valued, but life should be sweet. You should not serve things; things should serve you.”
Shuruppak, The Instructions of Shuruppak

Roger Scruton
“anamnesis: the bringing to consciousness of forgotten things.”
Roger Scruton, How to Be a Conservative

Joseph de Maistre
“The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but a vast altar upon which all that is living must be sacrificed without end, without measure, without pause, until the consummation of things, until evil is extinct, until the death of death.”
Joseph de Maistre, St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence

Sun Ra
“The earth cannot move without music. The earth moves in a certain rhythm, a certain sound, a certain note. When the music stops the earth will stop and everything upon it will die.”
Sun Ra, Space is the Place

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