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Anxiety is an elixir, and depression a sedative

Developing a more spacious personality, to use Jung’s felicitous phrase, sounds pleasant, but seldom do we grow toward one without the old order being called into account. It is generally through the experience of unsolicited suffering that we grow larger, not because the unexamined life proved easier.

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Requirements proliferation must be fought, by both birth control and infanticide.

there is no single correct value for the depth of an architecture, just as there is no single correct value for the length of a computer program

Noi tutti sappiamo che un brigatista rosso è in grado di produrre in poche ore decine di patenti false, e si noti che produrre una patente falsa è più laborioso che produrne una vera.

Die Geschichten in den Büchern hassen die Geschichten in den Zeitungen

Eine blaue Stichflamme von einem Kilometer Länge schoß aus dem Zwillingsrohr. Zu hören war natürlich nichts, denn eine Kontrafiktions-Kanone schießt ja bekanntlich mit Proteinen.

Life is not much like a candle; more of a rocket launcher.

"dass Kühe so störrisch sein können", sagte Pippi und sprang mit beiden Füssen zugleich uber das Gatter. "Kein Wunder, wenn die Stiere wütend werden."

It is similar to how people in neighboring countries, who resemble each other most, joke about each other. The Dutch find nothing to laugh at in the Chinese or the Brazilians, but they relish a good joke about the Belgians.

Dann kommen die Techniker. Sie kümmern sich nur noch um die Formeln. Sie gehen mit der Elektrizität um wie der Zuhälter mit der Dirne

In einem kerzenerleuchteten Schlafzimmer, das vom aromatischen Duft von Räucherstäbchen und den trance-stimulierenden, pentatonischen Synthesizerklängen der psychedelischen Band Gong erfüllt war, saß ich in der Halblotusposition und wartete darauf, in die Astralebene zu entschweben

arms and legs are not fixed entities; they can be divided into shoulders, forearms, thighs, calves, fingers, palms, and so on. The number of “elementary particles” is growing at an astounding rate. There is no unified theory of their behavior anymore. Between the general theory of erotic relativ- ity and quantum micromechanics (the quantum of caressing has been discovered) lies an unbridgeable abyss.