Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no final solution. Just conflict.
We speak the truth because we live in truth.
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Unknown
There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.
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George Orwell
But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad, " replied Martin.
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Voltaire
No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live there with define the terms of our relationship to the...
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Wendell Berry
But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.
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Lian Hearn
More Quotes By William S. Burroughs
We love the things we love for what they are.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.
I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know...
Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?
