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    Quote Originally Posted by cafolini View Post
    Personally, I considered Hardy one of the most insane thinkers the moment I read him. And as I grew older, even more so. I'm not going to say why. I would not waste my time with the freak.
    Agreed! With so much real life problems waiting to be tackled, the last thing I'd want is to go read someone who increases the depression manifold. A pessimist is not only a sad sight but a bad read too.
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    I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. ~ William Blake

    Captivity is consciousness,
    So's liberty. ~ Emily Dickinson

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    This is the kind of Friend You are-
    Without making me realize
    My soul’s anguished history,
    You slip into my house at night,
    And while I am sleeping,
    You silently carry off
    All my suffering and sordid past
    In Your beautiful hands.
    ~ Hafiz
    I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. ~ William Blake

    Captivity is consciousness,
    So's liberty. ~ Emily Dickinson

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    Nice little poem. I'm glad you find meaning in it.

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    Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. ~ Albert Camus

    One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough. ~ Hafiz of Persia

    Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains. ~ Hafiz of Persia

    A truce to your volumes, your studies, give o'er: for books cannot teach you love's marvelous lore. ~ Hafiz of Persia
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    It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. ~ John Steinbeck

    No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. ~ John Steinbeck
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    Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

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    “Art is the community’s medicine for the worst disease of the mind, corruption of consciousness.” R.G. Collingwood

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    "seeking to be more than man, we become less"

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    Quote Originally Posted by cafolini View Post
    Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. ~ Albert Camus

    One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough. ~ Hafiz of Persia

    Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains. ~ Hafiz of Persia

    A truce to your volumes, your studies, give o'er: for books cannot teach you love's marvelous lore. ~ Hafiz of Persia

    Do you know Hafiz is also referred to as Hafiz Shirazi? He was from Shiraz, Iran which is also the birthplace of Sa'di.

    And that's a beautiful quote of Camus.
    I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. ~ William Blake

    Captivity is consciousness,
    So's liberty. ~ Emily Dickinson

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    Quote Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin View Post
    “Art is the community’s medicine for the worst disease of the mind, corruption of consciousness.” R.G. Collingwood
    True! However, there are some people who hold art responsible for the corruption of consciousness. Deplorable and sad!
    I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. ~ William Blake

    Captivity is consciousness,
    So's liberty. ~ Emily Dickinson

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    Character, not brain, will count at the crucial moment. ~ Tagore
    I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. ~ William Blake

    Captivity is consciousness,
    So's liberty. ~ Emily Dickinson

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    Every cause produces more than one effect. ~ Herbert Spencer

    Every effect is a cause. ~ C A Cafolini

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    “I don't believe in God, but I miss him."
    Julian Barnes

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    If you shut the door to all errors, truths will be shut out. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

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