“l action et l amour”
“Sometimes the hardest journeys are the ones that begin with little hope. But we need to take them anyway.”
“I can’t seem to shake this perpetual awareness of being Molly.”
“म शुन्यमा शुन्य सरी बिलाए !”
“Memory s images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.”
“No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history s organic agents, its yeast. But revolutions are made by fanatical men of action with one-track mind, geniuses in their ability to confine themselves to a limited field. They overturn the old order in a few hours or days, the whole upheaval takes a few weeks or at most years, but the fanatical spirit that inspired the upheavals is worshiped for decades thereafter, for centuries. ”
“The fact is, that what de Sade was trying to bring to the surface of the conscious mind was precisely the thing that revolted that mind . . . From the very first he set before the consciousness things which it could not tolerate.”
“...in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.”
“Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?”
“The world s a headmaster who works on your faults. I don t mean in a mystical or Jesus way. More how you ll keep tripping over a hidden step, over and over, till you finally understand: Watch out for that step! Everything that s wrong with us, if we re too selfish or too Yessir, Nosir, Three bags full sir or too anything, that s a hidden step. Either you suffer the consequences of not noticing your fault forever or, one day, you do notice it, and fix it. Joke is, once you get it into your brain about that hidden step and think, Hey, life isn t such a shithouse after all again, then BUMP! Down you go, a whole new flight of hidden steps. There are always more.”
“Life has always been a matter of putting one s feet down carefully”
“There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby. ”
“I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it.”
“The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well.”
“When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys.”
“We go to school so that when we grow up we can make lots of money, and we make lots of money so we can provide for our children, and we have children to provide for our retirement (because we don’t have any money left).”
“The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.”