“Perhaps it's not possible to explain," he said. "Certain things in your life matter to you because they're important; your acts are certainly important to you, but for me, not a single thin is important any longer neither my acts nor the acts of any of my fellow men. I go on living though. because I have my will. Because I have tempered my will throughout my life until it's neat and wholesome and now it doesn't matter to me that nothing matters. My will controls the folly of my life.”
― A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan
― A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan
“A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.”
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“A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.”
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“Real generosity is also showing up when you don’t feel like it—sacrificing your own happiness in exchange for someone else’s.”
― Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and You Too!
― Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and You Too!
“Death is agony. There is simply no other way to describe it. It is getting the wind knocked out of you over and over again, and just when you think you have enough strength to take a deep breath, it knocks you down again. There is no break from the pain. It is arduous, unyielding.”
― Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and You Too!
― Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and You Too!
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