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Death was death, and wherever we went afterward was something I would find out when my time came.
“Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.”
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.”
― The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary
― The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary
“A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.”
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“I have amazing news for you. Man is not alone on this planet. He is part of a community, upon which he depends absolutely.”
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would tell you that their family is like a hand, of which they are the fingers. They are fully aware of being a family but are very little aware of being individuals. Here in the zoo there were other gorillas—but there was no family. Five severed fingers do not make a hand.”
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
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