“When we act, as it seems, with the greatest spontaneity and vigour, we are to some extent led by the things we imagine we are controlling. Moreover, the very expansion of our energy (which reveals the core of our personality) is, ultimately, only our obedience to a will to be and to grow, of which […]
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Debt: it’s what we all got, I owed it to myself, I went out and bought, I just thought I ought, to own, to own, to own, to owe.
“…Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling…” Ursula K. LeGuin
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“The best kind of classical performance is never a retreat into the past but rather an intensification of the present.” Alex Ross in New York Times: Listen To This http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/02/16/040216fa_fact4?currentPage=1 – the best kind of *any* performance!
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“…glancing at their religion and politics the way a doctor would look at symptoms.” Iain Banks, in ‘State of the Art’, describing how an enormously advanced species of extraterrestrials viewed human civilisation…
THE GRAVELON 1. Infinity in a Pane of Glass Jake awoke very early and lay quietly. Everyone was still asleep, the house was quiet, and he was warm. Virgil, his grandma’s ancient, battered, stuffed dog, lay on his chest. Light patterns were flickering and dancing on the wall from the morning sun which was slipping
“We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can’t bomb it into peace.” Michael Franti
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“It is precisely when we start to think of some of us as ‘chosen’ and others as ‘frozen’ that we happily become willing to defrost them with our bombs” Farid Esack
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“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” Paul Valéry
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Love is “…an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole…” Erich Fromm – The Art of Loving
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