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To live out one’s desires and, in so doing, subtly alter their nature is the aim of every individual who aspires to evolve. But desire is paramount and ineradicable, even when, as Buddhists express it, it passes over into its opposite. To
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“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
― The Conquest of Happiness
― The Conquest of Happiness
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
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“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
― Survivor
― Survivor
Astor’s 2025 Year in Books
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