"Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life."

-- Bertolt Brecht

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“All progressive thought has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain ... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.”
“Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the friable nests of birds, completely intact and unharmed on the ground. That the featherweight survive the massive, that this reversal of fortune takes place among us â€” that is what haunts me. I donâ€™t know what it means.”

Source : Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.206, Wave Books
“If someone asks, Is anyone alive? Break, your, head, open, and, show, your, ten, ta, cle.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I play piano and I sing. But I do that for fun. I mean, I do everything for fun.”
“It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.”
“And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.”

Source : Iain Pears (1999). “AN Instance of the Fingerpost”, p.18, Penguin
“They all err - Muslims, Christians, Jews and Magians. There are two kinds of humans - the intelligent, who have no religion, and the religious, who have no intellect.”
“This world's not going to change unless we're willing to change ourselves.”

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