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“There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not impor...”
“Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.”
“I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.”
“When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and h...”
“Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life ou...”
“It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It seemed to me that I made no impact on the world, and that in ex...”
“If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence.”
“I kept running around it in large or small circles, always looking for someone or something able to convince me of my Belovedness.Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because ...”
“Here, fire turns into water;Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun.There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction;Everything supports everything else.”
“Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence.”
“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.”
“We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.”
“Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.”
“If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.”
“Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.”
“The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority.”
“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.”
“You were right," said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, "when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents.”
“The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not existand the one who exists I do not see.”
“Love is the linchpin that connects the material world with higher levels of existence.”
