Life: another day, another dolor.

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The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.

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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.

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The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

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Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

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Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.

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Life is cruel? Compared to what?

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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

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A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a Juniper tree or the wings of a vulture-that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.

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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture.

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Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

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Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves.

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The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life-forms.

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They would never understand that an economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

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Business: Busyness.

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I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.

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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

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