"Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope for eternal life.....The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worth while and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die."

Source : "The Faith of a Heretic" by Walter Kaufmann, Princeton University Press, Ch. 12 (pp. 374-375), 1961.

Walter Kaufmann

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“Democracy is like three oxen pulling a plough. The oxen are the independent powers, but you have to walk in the same direction; otherwise, you cannot plough and that is what was happening in Colombia. One ox was walking in one direction, the other in another direction, so the democracy was not working.”

Source : "Santos: 'Colombia can play a role . . . that coincides with the U.S. interest'". Interview with Juan Forero, www.washingtonpost.com. December 26, 2010.
“He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.”
“There's no abiding success without commitment.”
“I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes standing along the sides of the red-carpeted staircase at the main entrance; I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied.”
“Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.”

Source : "Layne Staley Unchained". Pandemonium Magazine, Vol#29, April 1995.
“Most people cant' deal with reality, but indulge heavily in fantasy and fear.”
“You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.”
“If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before donâ€™t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more.”

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