"I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it."

-- Franz Kafka

“I have learned that the place where I subsist is all places, and the space I occupy is all intervals.”
“When we get emotionally and spiritually involved in helping a person who is in pain, a compassion enters our heart. It hurts, but the process lifts some of the pain from another.”

Source : Glenn L. Pace (1993). “Spiritual Revival”, Shadow Mountain
“I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.”
“When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.”
“Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody's hair stand on end; he is always crying: "But he hasn't any clothes on!" about an emperor who is half the time surprisingly well-dressed.”
“Iâ€™m just going to do what I want now, and let the chips fall where they may.”
“Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.”
“I believe in art, and more fundamentally the freedom to express one's self creatively. People don't know yet what they'll ultimately believe in or how they'll organize their lives. They're kind of in limbo.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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