"He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart."

-- Johann Kaspar Lavater

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“I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.”
“None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.”
“Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.”
“The true religion, it is said, is service to mankind; but this service seems to take the form of securing for him an unconditional victory over nature. Now this attitude is impious, for, as has been noted, it violates the belief that creation or nature is fundamentally good, that the ultimate reason for its laws is a mystery, and that acts of defiance such as are daily celebrated by the newspapers are subversive of cosmos.”
“All of this happened a long time ago. But not so long ago that everyone who played a part in it is dead. Some can still be met in dark old rooms with nurses in attendance.”

Source : Timothy Findley (1986). “The wars”, Penguin Group Canada
“Most American white men are trained to be fags. For this reason it is no wonder their faces are weak and blank...”
“Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand perspective. It's a sense of being awed by existence that almost obliterates the self. Religious people think of it as an essentially religious experience but it's not. It's an essentially human experience.”
“Jump and the net will appear.”

Source : Mick Ebeling (2017). “Not Impossible: The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn't Be Done”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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