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“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.”
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“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
― Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula
― Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula
“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
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“(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.”
― Disgrace
― Disgrace
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