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Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.
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The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality.
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
We 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.
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
Hope is a slow business.
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.
