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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.Unknown
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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained, the vaster the appetite for more.Unknown
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George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.Unknown
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You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.Unknown
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He never spoke with any bitterness at all, no matter how awful the things he said. Are there really people without resentment, without hate, she wondered. People who never go cross-grained to the universe? Who recognize evil, and resist evil, and yet are utterly unaffected by it? Of course there are. Countless, the living and the dead. Those who have returned in pure compassion to the wheel, those who follow the way that cannot be followed without knowing they follow it, the sharecropper's wife in Alabama and the lama in Tibet and the entomologist in Peru and the millworker in Odessa and the greengrocer in London and the goatherd in Nigeria and the old, old man sharpening a stick by a dry streambed somewhere in Australia, and all the others. There is not one of us who has not known them. There are enough of them, enough to keep us going. Perhaps.Unknown
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Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. They do not learn this by learning. They do not work it by working. They do not reason it by using reason. To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven. –Chuang Tse: XXIIIUnknown
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He seemed not to know the uses of silence.Unknown
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A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.Unknown
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«I am tired, » he said. «I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the entire will power, the accumulated strength of my entire existence, to press one damned OFF button.»« You have lived well, » the Alien said.Unknown
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I have this, this gift, I know that; and I know my obligation to it.Unknown
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The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them.Unknown
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Orr slept. He dreamed. There was no rub.Unknown
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She could not have been born gray. Hercolor, her color of brown, was an essential part of her, not an accident. Her anger, timidity, brashness, gentleness, all were elements of her mixed being, her mixednature, dark and clear right through, like Baltic amber. She could not exist in the gray people's world. She had not been born.Unknown
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Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.Unknown