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““I wanted to study them all; obviously, not as a specialist, but still rigorously, working directly from texts, because I have a horror of improvisation and hearsay learning.””

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“Stangaciile, ca si timiditatea, au un farmec discret prin surprizele pe care le provoaca, prin panica naiva care o raspandesc.”

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I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body.

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If we pay no attention to it, time does not exist.

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“Inainte chiar de a afla vreun raspuns satisfacator, si numai prin faptul ca a fost rostita, intrebarea justa regenereaza si fertilizeaza; si nu numai…

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Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane.

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“It must never be forgotten that initiatory death simultaneously signifies the end of the "natural," noncultural man, and passage to a new modality of…

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To whatever degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who has made his choice in favor of a profane life never succeeds…

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The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been…

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Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane ... In his encounters with…

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“Mă întreb, bunăoară, dacă nu cumva în ziua când am început să iubesc nu s-a întâmplat ceva lângă mine, ceva pe care eu nu…

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“Eu am optat pentru Viaţă, îi spusese. Vreau să trăiesc, să văd ce are să se întâmple până la urmă...”

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Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle…

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