"Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success we forget the easiness of free beauty lying sad right around the corner, only an instant removed, unnoticed and squandered."

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“To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.”

“I imagined I was God for a millisecond and became speechless for a long time.”

“Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.”

“I can see myself before myself—a being through dark scenery.”

“Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.”

“Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.”

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"Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right."

— Charlemagne

Politics

#knowledge

"I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power."

— Ai Weiwei

Art1957

#freedom

"There is beauty as well as danger when you deal with the subtle realms. The beauty is that you can have realizations, revelations, and experiences that can carry over into the waking state. The danger…"

— Bhakti Tirtha Swami

Literature1950–2005

#family

"Too many crucial things about this country turn out to be highly recommended because they are 'invisible'. There is the 'hidden hand' of the free market, the 'unwritten' Constitution, the 'invisible e…"

— Christopher Hitchens

Philosophy1949–2011

#truth