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Every human life has infinite value and to destroy even one is a crime against all humanity.
Beware of what you teach your children in the womb.
Cast yourself upon the waters. Trust in your ability to swim.
A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling.
Since nature abhors a vacuum, the void must be in you.
In a war between evils, only evil wins.
Wars have always been easier to fight than explain.
There is only one side to be on-the side of life
One should love oneself enough not to love oneself too much.
Absence casts the longest shadow.
A basket of ripe fruit is holier than any prayer book.
The struggle against injustice is just another kind of injustice.
The essential thing is learning how not to be absent from one's own life.
We are the mountains we must cross.
When evil fights evil, only evil wins.
When a war breaks out, everyone is on the wrong side.
Every war casts humanity back into the primordial slime.
Every wars casts humanity back into the primordial slime.
If wars still exist, it's because we don't love peace enough.
When you fill a void, isn't the void still there?
The void can only be filled with love.
A writer's tragedy: to know all the words and nothing else.
Life is nothing but surprises. Even our tragedies turn out different than we expect.
Living in a godless universe is our freedom, our salvation, not our tragedy.
Life is not tragic. The tragedy is what people do to themselves and to each other.
The skies give no warning when they fall.
We have to eat to live, and that's our timeless tale of tragedy.
If the sky falls, there'll be a bigger sky behind it.
To put one's career before one's personal life is like putting death before life.
It is not miserable to have a heart, it is miserable to deny it.
Nothing is known until the heart knows it.
The only acceptable alternative to silence is to speak from the heart
Be grateful to those who refuse your demands. They are your benefactors.
Value judgments have value only to the extent that they provoke opposition.
An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes."
Art always springs from a surplus of life"
The sea will wash away our footprints but not the fact we made them."
Words make known. But we live in the unknown."
I never reach those far-off places. New trails tempt me at every turn.
Be a poet in action as well as in words.
What happens is always worth more than words.
It makes no difference what Christ or Buddha said.
Actions speak louder than words is still the great truth about life.
The fanciful is as much a part of our reality as the factual.
We should allow ourselves all pleasures, real or imaginary.
When I'm dying, I want dying to be my only regret.
Life is too short for regrets.
Where we go is not determined by where we want to go.
Grace rides inside the waves.
A few names have survived oblivion. In time, oblivion will have them all.
The brightest stars don't necessarily give the most light.
Intellectual despair is a subject for comedy.
The tragedy of every religion is that it needs a church to survive.
The problem is not religion but the void that creates religions.
The mouse that fears the trap has already been trapped.
To be saved is to believe in one's own courage.
Truthfulness requires humility as well as courage.
A writer's courage: to leave a blank page blank.
Some leaves hang on longer but eventually they all fall.
Fighting doesn't hurt until you stop.
Seeing is always an act of courage.
Take a wrong turn. Get lost in something you love.
Words can't save you, but they can give you courage.
The plant that's been uprooted has only courage to hold it up.
Water flows because it's willing.
It's incorrigible but inevitable how one gets used to everyone dying.
The desire to change things must begin with accepting things as they are.
We are lying to ourselves when we're not contradicting ourselves.
We are being dishonest with ourselves when we're not contradicting ourselves.
If you want to write about life, you have to write about death.
Never hesitate to tell the truth as you see it.
The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets.
Even the oldest trees aren't ashamed to stand naked.
What I like more than anything is the touch of a warm hand.
Humanity will never truly evolve until personal responsibility becomes the norm.
Humor is a second wind.
A breath, to keep one going, must be one's own.
You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose.
In winter, on the darkest nights, one rejoices even to see the tiniest sliver of a moon.
Bring a song with you into the darkness.
A shooting star yields very little light.
One goes into the darkness to bring some light.
Some truths can only be seen in the dark.
Tyranny begins with the laws of grammar.
Philosophy: unsound conclusions based on sound reasoning.
If one bite fills you, you don't need two.
Walking alone, I sing to myself and am content.
To accomplish a difficult task one must first make it easy.
The landscape looks different from every blade of grass.
How many deaths before the real one?
When people have given up on happiness they call themselves "realists.
Diseased organs get the most attention.
Culture is a communicable disease.
Imaginary diseases are the hardest to cure.
Loneliness is a failure to appreciate others.
Through the power of art imaginary landscapes turn into real ones.
Almost all our cares are imaginary. We think them into existence.
The knowledge an artist possesses is an advanced form of daydreaming.
When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones.
Memory is weak, imagination strong.
The artist's duty is to defend the exceptional: the imagination.
One's deepest struggles are never with the world, but always with oneself.
Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out.
It takes a long time to learn how to do something simple.
The game of love is complicated, but love is not complicated.
Progress is discovering what you can do without.
People always say, "It's not that simple." But maybe it is.
My calm is like the tides: never at rest.
History is the study of the abuse of power.
All the rain that fell since the world began won't cure today's drought.
History is barbaric to me because it omits all traces of the personal.
We don't know history. We only know what has been written about it.
History is conjecture raised to the level of an art.
Ideas stand in the corner and laugh while we fight over them.
There is only one side to be on-the side of life.
Never hold a belief longer than you can hold your breath.
To hate everything is to be wounded by everything.
No one plants rosebushes for the thorns.
All love is true while it lasts.
Write as if the wind will erase every word.

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