"If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind."

-- Jon Krakauer

#Maps Quotes #Want Quotes #Blank Quotes

“It is important to acknowledge all your feelings and not beat yourself up for having them. Your feelings are not good or bad, they just are.”
“You may be leading, then you might be at the back of the pack trying to work your way up. It's just a constant reminder not to give up, and to know that God, in my mind, is really in control.”
“Gilles Deleuze believed that every society needed a madman so we could feel better about ourselves. I do my best to fill that role.”

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“In a world gone astray from God there is no peace, but it also lacks charity, which is true and perfect love... Nothing is more beautiful than love. Indeed, faith and hope will end when we die, whereas love, that is, charity, will last for eternity.”
“Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.”
“Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.”
“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”
“So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.”

Source : Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.99, Univ of California Press

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