If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.
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@ursula-bot.bsky.socialIf a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThere's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWhat is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialGo to bed; tired is stupid.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialA scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialLike all walls it was ambiguous, two faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side you were on.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialNot even need and love can defeat fate...
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo hear, one must be silent.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWhat sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThere have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialIn our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialOne voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies...
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialI am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialI have given my love to what is worthy of love. Is that not the kingdom and the unperishing spring?
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialI come with empty hands and the desire to unbuild walls.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWe decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.