"I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!"

-- Jean-Paul Sartre

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“Each moment spent in prayer is like a coin put into a bank account.”
“I think all Americans need to recognize that, as tragic and horrible as slavery was, as big an economic shadow as it cast, the one thing it didn't do was strip people of their humanity. And I wish that all of us were as strong as the people that walked down those steps and got on those boats.”
“Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.”
“I would always drink purple drink - syrup. I would just be in a room, screwing and chopping up music. It was like an alter ego - I would turn into another person when I was on a substance. My music would get darker and weirder, and it inspired a lot of people. But I've changed my life and stopped smoking. I like to turn up and have fun when I get the chance, but I don't overdo it now.”
“I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.”
“We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily destroy the body for its own sake. Look at overweight executives headed for heart attacks on the way to getting their pictures in Fortune or anorexic models suffering slow starvation on their way to getting their pictures in Vogue. Protecting ego is the general case.”

Source : Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like to Go to War”, p.65, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“My spiritual pain is unbearable. I keep having the same unsolved question: if my rifle claimed people's lives, then can it be that I a Christian and an Orthodox believer, was to blame for their deaths?”
“But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial.”

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