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""The things of this world interweave dances made to different rhythms. If the world is upheld by the dancing Shiva, there must be ten thousand such dancing Shivas, like the dancing figures painted by Matisse."" — Apr 17, 2021 07:39AM
""The things of this world interweave dances made to different rhythms. If the world is upheld by the dancing Shiva, there must be ten thousand such dancing Shivas, like the dancing figures painted by Matisse."" — Apr 17, 2021 07:39AM
“The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.”
― The Dharma Bums:
― The Dharma Bums:
“It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.”
― Island
― Island
“But the true measure of a society’s freedom is how it treats its dissidents and other marginalized groups, not how it treats good loyalists.”
― No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
― No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
“Why didn’t we build more hospitals and fewer churches, you could pray to God everywhere but you could not operate in a gutter!”
― THE STORY OF SAN MICHELE
― THE STORY OF SAN MICHELE
“One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent in the human condition, the price we must pay for being sentient and self-conscious organisms, aspirants to liberation, but subject to the laws of nature and under orders to keep on marching, through irreversible time, through a world wholly indifferent to our well-being, toward decrepitude and the certainty of death. The remaining two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.”
― Island
― Island
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