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Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice wine or fermented coconut-milk. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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Behind the veil of life, beyond the look of eyes ↗

— Samael

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Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at the river, and he also saw the river going downhill, always moving on downhill, and singing and being happy through it all. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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Life, it is not simple like a garden, where flowers are always flowers and weeds are always weeds. ↗

— Lesley Kagen

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When people stargazing, they stare at stars, and many other things which they've already presumed commonly and universally as stars. ↗

— Toba Beta

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It is the things that happen to you which no one else knows about that make you important in life. ↗

— Suzanne Kingsbury

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One person's greatest regret is another person's greatest memory. ↗

— Angela Lam Turpin

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Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television. ↗

— Andy Warhol

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It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire, and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze. The day on which you are without passionate love is the most wasted day of your life. ↗

— Omar Khayyám

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