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- Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
- Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the…
- Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of…
- Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for…
- You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain my idea of…
- It is now the fall of my second year in Paris. I was sent here for a reason I have not yet been able to…
- Example moves the world more than doctrine.
- When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . .…
- I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must…
- What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the…
- Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to…
- For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has…
- There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us…
- With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand that I had…
- It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones,…
- If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want to laugh more.…
- Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an…
- I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet…
- I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the stone and light…
- Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More…
- What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my own life and…
- If I am against the condition of the world, it is not because I am a moralist - it is because I want to laugh…
- The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate…
- Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of…
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