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You cease totally and only then you arrive. You enter into the world of God, or godliness, only when you are no more. — Rajneesh

Pride counterbalances all these miseries; man either hides or displays them, and glories in his awareness of them. — Blaise Pascal

22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. — Anonymous

There are some despotic governments so filled with a feeling of insecurity that they regard the free life of culture as a threat to their existence ... On the other extreme is the kind of popular government which is so distrustful of all forms of distinction that it sees even in the cultivated individual a menace to its existence. Such states are likely to maintain a pressure which discourages cultural endeavor, although the pressure may be exerted through social channels. — Richard M. Weaver

My heart burns like fire but my eyes are as cold as dead ashes. — Soyen Shaku

I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles] ... I'm ready. — Elliott Smith

But my subconscious mind
the part I've heard writers call the lizard brain
could and did: it told me to reach for Anne Lamott or Edith Wharton or Calvin Trillin instead. And if I've learned one thing in my decades on earth, it's this: Don't argue with your lizard brain; it knows you better than you know yourself. — Sara Nelson

The audience requires not information but drama. — David Mamet