"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."

-- Zhuangzi

#Dream Quotes #Butterfly Quotes #Men Quotes

“And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe”

Source : "Ring Around the Sun". Book by Clifford D. Simak, 1953.
“Really, all religious teachings can be boiled down to: â€œJust be cool. Donâ€™t be an asshole.”

Source : Nick Offerman (2013). “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living”, p.49, Penguin
“For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]”
“I've moved away from writing about and describing actual experiences of sex work, whether mine or anybody else's, because the culture is obsessed with the behavior of sex workers. They want to figure out why they do what they do and who they are. What I'm trying to do is to shift the focus onto the producers of the anti-sex work discourse: the cops, the feminists, the anti-prostitution people. Those are the people whose behavior needs to change.”
“I do think American culture has shifted a little bit away from the contemplative more toward the visual, more toward the emotional, and more toward the expressive. I don't think there's a lot that can be done about that. We just have to understand that it's the product of technology and of the way people live now.”
“The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.”
“Unless You Puke, Faint or Die, Keep Going!”
“The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where? - and day by day hour by hour, with every beat of the pulse, one lost more and more of one's qualities, became less comprehensible to oneself, increasingly abstract.”

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