"The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new."

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Source : Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.155, Univ of California Press

Norman O. Brown

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“Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?”

Source : "The Hemoglobin Molecule". Scientific American, 211, 65-76, November 1964.
“R&B is never going to be dead, it's just going to evolve.”
“Crown Prince Rupprecht, the heir to the throne of Bavaria who commanded the army group facing the British at the Somme, was the senior direct lineal heir of James Stuart, the Old Pretender of 1715. Had there been any Jacobites left in Britain in 1916, they would have had to regard this south German prince as their rightful king.”
“Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.”
“Just as if you put your finger into water, it will get wet, and if you put it into fire, it will burn, so if you invest your mind in the wisdom mind of the Buddhas, it will transform into their wisdom nature.”
“At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something”
“You don't have to be someone special to achieve something amazing. You've just got to have a dream, believe in it and work hard.”
“Freedom is a universal value.”

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