"To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock."

-- Julian Barnes

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“I've got to wear sunglasses everywhere, all the time, even if its indoors or at night time, to be recognized. That's part of my job. I cannot take off my sunglasses. For me, staying in the United States was so dark because I can't take them off.”
“People are always afraid of the truth.”
“I can't say that there are "things" that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.”
“Twenty years from now, I can look at this medal and say, 'I was the best quarter-miler in the world on that day.' If you don't think that's important, you don't know what's inside an athlete's soul.”
“What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to fool. Democratic politicians must appeal to these masses in order to be elected. Whoever is the best demagogue will win. Almost by necessity, then, democracy will lead to the perversion of truth, justice and beauty.”
“Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.”

Source : Bede Griffiths (2004). “Bede Griffiths: Essential Writings”
“There were a lot of things happen in the mid-'80's that all of a sudden made it possible to do a lot of very quick interactive music.”
“You love fear. The ending of fear is death, and you don't want that to happen. I am not talking of wiping out the phobias of the body. They are necessary for survival. The death of fear is the only death.”

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