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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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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The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

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People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

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

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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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The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

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

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The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

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