"The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood."

-- Sean O'Casey

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“Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!”
“Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.”
“Prayer is the oxygen of the soul.”
“It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.”
“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, youâ€™ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.Theyâ€™re huge and abstract. And theyâ€™re very beautiful.”

Source : "Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity". Book by David Lynch, December 27, 2007.
“She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull them to you by the sheer force of your desire, a force so strong it felt as though you were going to die from it.”
“Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.”
“No one on earth has lived through the exact same experiences you have, and no one thinks the exact same thoughts you do.”

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