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“Newspapers rely on keeping us in a state of constant anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the thing that really matter to us. Why should I yield to their power and let them tell me what to think?”

“Perhaps that’s the whole point of prayer- to think to yourself in peace, to want nothing, to ask for nothing, but to simply sort out your own mind. That should be enough. “

“Other people’s life stories are not a topic for debate.”

“There’s no escaping it. I cannot be someone other than who I am. How awful. We’d prefer to think we’re free, able to reinvent ourselves whenever we choose. This connection with something as great and monumental as the sky makes us feel uncomfortable. We’d rather be small, and then our petty little sins would be forgivable. Therefore I’m convinced that we should get to know our prisons very well. “

“As I gazed at the black-and-white landscape of the Plateau I realized that sorrow is an important word for defining the world. It lies at the foundations of everything, it is the fifth element, the quintessence.”