“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.”
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“The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.”
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“How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities?... I never feel the four walls around the substance of the self, the core. I feel only space. Illimitable space.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
“The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.”
― On the Suffering of the World
― On the Suffering of the World
“Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.”
― Essays
― Essays
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