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“The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.”
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“Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations”
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“That mean voice in your head is not you and not true.”
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“In truth, ayahuasca is the television of the forest.”
Source : Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.11, Penguin
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“As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.”
Source : "Doris Lessing: key quotes". www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2013. 
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“People have explored these questions ['Why am I here?', 'What is life about?'] in poems, not that they found their answers, but in reading [poems], I think, you find a certain beauty in the questioning, and that is then poetry.”
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“In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect.”
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“You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the simple, primitive, naked instincts, than by depicting a specific situation. It is not the human animal we should describe, but ourselves as human animals.”
Source : "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 76), 2002.
