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The Sheltering Sky

by Paul Bowles

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“The river that everything drags is known as violent, but nobody calls violent the margins that arrest him.”
― Bertolt Brecht

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“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

tags: philosophy

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“Everything terrible is something that needs our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

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“To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.”
― Robert M. Pirsig

tags: living, purpose

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“If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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