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Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours…
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Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and…
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Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.
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Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only…
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A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
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Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost…
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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a…
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Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is…
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
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The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an…
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Poet: gardener of epitaphs.
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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing…
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Aristotle
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
— Aristotle
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Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.
— Sri Aurobindo
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What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two…
— Virginia Woolf
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In pregnancy, there are two bodies, one inside the other. Two people live under one skin. When so much of life is…
— Unknown Author
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To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other…
— Isaac Newton
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The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two…
— Lysander Spooner
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That two bodies press convulsively together, man and woman, he fertilizing her, he giving her a budding life, or he planting a…
— Unknown Author
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They are not said to be husband and wife, who merely sit together. Rather they alone are called husband and wife, who…
— Guru Amar Das
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Then the highest state of love is prayerfulness. In prayerfulness there is communion. In sex there is the I/it relationship, in love…
— Rajneesh
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