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I am so convinced that a work is something that, once it has come forth from us, is worth more than we are, that I find it quite natural to sacrifice myself for it as a father would for his child. But this idea must not lead me to address others about what can, unfortunately, only interest me.

—Proust

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Exactitude in some small matters is the very soul of discipline.

—Joseph Conrad

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Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.

—Chögyam Trungpa

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Love is all fire; and so heaven and hell are the same place.

—Thomas Merton

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To feel life is meaningless unless "I" can be permanent, is like having desperately having fallen in love with an inch.

—Franz Kafka

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Don't goof off.

—John Fowles

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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstacy at your feet.

—Ted Berrigan, In The Early Morning Rain

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Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass.

—Aldous Huxley in Island

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Through his tears Dr. Robert smiled back at her. "So now you can let go, my darling." He stroked her gray hair. "Now you can let go. Let go," he insisted. "Let go of this poor old body. You don't need it anymore. Let it fall away from you. Leave it lying there like a pile of worn-out clothes . . . Go on, go on into the Light, into the peace, into the living peace of the Clear Light.

—Unknown

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Brighter," came the barely audible whisper, "brighter." And a smile of happiness intense almost to the point of elation transfigured her face.

—Unknown

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Over there, in the corner. I can see myself there. And she can see my body on the bed.

—Unknown

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Where are you?

—Unknown

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The Light," came the hoarse whisper, "the Clear Light. It's here — along with the pain, in spite of the pain.

—Unknown

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Lightly, my darling, lightly. Even when it comes to dying. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic. No rhetoric, no tremolos, no self-conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Goethe or Little Nell. And, of course, no theology, no metaphysics. Just the fact of dying and the fact of the Clear Light. So throw away all your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly . . .

—Gary Snyder, "Piute Creek

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It is within my power either to serve God, or not to serve Him. Serving Him I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create.

—Leo Tolstoy

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