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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Never Explain Anything”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
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    William Blake
    “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
    ― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
    tags: infinity, perception
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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    August Strindberg
    “There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.”
    ― August Strindberg, The ghost sonata
    tags: blindness, poison, sight, vision
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    Sadhguru
    “Bullshit may get you to the top, but it never lets you stay there!”
    ― Sadhguru, Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy
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    René Guénon
    “This ‘specialization’, arising from an analytical attitude of mind, has been pushed to such a point that those who have undergone its influence are incapable of conceiving of a science that deals with nature in its entirety.”
    ― René Guénon, The Crisis of the Modern World
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    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “In the highest level a man has the look of knowing nothing .”
    ― Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
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    Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
    “An empty stomach knows no morality.”
    ― Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What Is Property?
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “I love those who yearn for the impossible.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Edward Abbey
    “Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.”
    ― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
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    Werner Wilhelm Jaeger
    “The world-view of the poets centred in their experience of human destiny itself and of the way in which it could be overcome through that spirit of heroism in the midst of tragedy which had grown to maturity in the hard struggles of a century filled with inward upheaval and threatened with constant danger from without.”
    ― Werner Wilhelm Jaeger, The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers
    tags: compassion, hellenism, heroism, mahayana, overcoming, pain, suffering, tragedy
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    Seneca
    “Nobody believed he was really quite born” - a proverb for a nobody (referring to Claudius)”
    ― Seneca, Apocolocyntosis
    tags: apocalocyntosis, claudius, emperor-claudius, nobody, opinion
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    Seneca
    “The Gallic cock was worth most on his own dunghill” - a Roman proverb.”
    ― Seneca, Apocolocyntosis
    tags: proverb, seneca, status, territory, worth, worthlesness
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    “A king will come under the power of as many people as he reveals a secret to, becoming powerless because of that act.”
    ― Kautilya (Author), Arthashastra
    tags: ancient-india, governance, kautilya, king, law, patrick-olivelle-translation, secrets
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    “An arrow unleashed by an archer may kill a single man or not kill anyone; but a strategy unleashed by a wise man kills even those still in the womb (10.6.51)”
    ― Kautilya (Author), Arthashastra
    tags: ancient-india, governance, kautilya, king, law, patrick-olivelle-translation, secrets, stratagem, strategy, wisdom
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    C.W. Leadbeater
    “It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.”
    ― C.W. Leadbeater
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