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There is, then, the feeling that we live in a time of unusual insecurity. In the past hundred years so many long-established traditions have broken down - traditions of family and social life, of government, of the economic order, and of religious belief. As the years go by, there seem to be fewer and fewer rocks to which we can hold, fewer things which we can regard as absolutely right and true, and fixed for all time. To some this is a welcome release from the restraints of moral, social, and spiritual dogma. To others it is a dangerous and terrifying breach with reason and sanity, tending to plunge human life into hopeless chaos. To most, perhaps, the immediate sense of release has given a brief exhilaration, to be followed by the deepest anxiety. For if all is relative, if life is a torrent without form or goal in whose flood absolutely nothing save change itself can last, it seems to be something in which there is "no future" and thus no hope. — Alan W. Watts

Everyone knows how to cook parasols - you soak them in milk, then dip them in egg and breadcrumbs and fry them until they're brown as chops. You can do the same thing with a panther amanita that smells of nuts, but people don't pick amanitas. They divide mushrooms into poisonous and edible, and the guidebooks discuss the features that allow you to tell the difference - as if there are good mushrooms and bad mushrooms. No mushroom book separates them into beautiful and ugly, fragrant and stinking, nice to touch and nasty, or those that induce sin and those that absolve it. People see what they want to see, and in the end they get what they want - clear, but false divisions. Meanwhile, in the world of mushrooms, nothing is certain. — Olga Tokarczuk

From what you didn't say, lies that you did say. — Dejan Stojanovic

You may be sure that if you succeed in bringing your audience into the presence of something that affects them, they will not care by what road you brought them there; and they will never reproach you for having excited their emotions in spite of dramatic rules. — Alexis De Tocqueville

She has a taste for unusual women, with strong noses and doll eyes and creative dispositions. — Lena Dunham

Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. — Franz Kafka

And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain. — Antonio Porchia

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty. — Hosea Ballou

In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it. — Neil Kinnock

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth? — George Bernard Shaw