The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.

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Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas.

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Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.

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You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

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The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

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Beauty is a rebellion against time.

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When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

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Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

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The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.

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To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

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