Wise Phrases

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Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.

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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.

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Moral: Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.

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The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life. Three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty, all belonging to the oldest festal joys.

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I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have people putting you down. It doesn't give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, "You're great." We enjoy some of the criticisms as well, they're quite funny; some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don't know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun.

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Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.

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I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

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Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.