The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darknness.
Once a person has been poisoned by self-deception, he can't make decisions about himself as neatly as all that, Himiko said, elaborating her friend's terrific prophecy; You won't get a divorce Bird....
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
She now felt an incessant and universal numbness.
The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with w...
There is no reason to be in touch with you I m reduced to sub existence
Say not: I live today, I shall die tomorrow. Divide not reality between life and death. Say: now I live and die.
I kissed her and forgot death.
No drugs here, no manipulation of neurotransmitters that leaves our worldly problems unattended. And no talking cures because explicit insight is not needed. All that is required is courage: the coura...
People see the cleverness of nature and suppose it's the cleverness of the animal itself but it was obvious to me that each and every segment of the animal isn't aware. How much I'd hate to live total...
In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.
I Think, Therefore I Am ... I Think ...
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, t...
The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it...
We rush through our days in such stress and intensity, as if we were here to stay and the serious project of the world depended on us. We worry and grow anxious; we magnify trivia until they become im...
A sense of his own identity came upon him with sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself, and he knew what he had been.
Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
In comparison with capitalism, which reconstituted man as an economic animal; in comparison with Marxism, which found man an object made up of organized matter; in comparison with catholicism, which s...
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