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The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.
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The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.
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Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them
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When something important is going on, silence is a lie.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.
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Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.
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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
