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Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle…
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Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.
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He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled.…
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Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he shines forth;…
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He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of…
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He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes and kings…
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Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have taught, I…
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What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven…
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Therefore, if a great kingdom humbles itself before a small kingdom, it shall make that small kingdom its prize. And if a…
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The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to…
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Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be before the…
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The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not…
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Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
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Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnameable.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had…
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I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders…
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He let out a sigh. With my head there against his chest, I could faintly make out the sound of his heart…
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my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed…
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All this worldly wisdom was once the unnameable heresy of some wise man.
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