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“Heaven and earth
begin in the unnamed:
name’s the mother
of the ten thousand things.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way

“Life is a nightmare that leaves its mark upon you in order to prove that it is, in fact, real.”
― Thomas Ligott, Songs of a Dead Dreamer

“We suffer from the delusion that the entire universe is held in order by the categories of human thought, fearing that if we do not hold to them with the utmost tenacity, everything will vanish into chaos.

We must repeat: memory, thought, language, and logic are essential to human life. They are one half of sanity. But a person, a society, which is only half sane is insane. To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words—to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

“(Of Honor without Fame/Of Greatness without Splendor/Of Dignity without Pay);”
― Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections