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Again we go West
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'Look', I said to him, 'you may be tossing golden crowns studded with diamonds to other people, but the way that you throw them can smash heads'
only that which is, or is becoming, alien can be rediscovered
How much evil must we do in order to do good?
we're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
and the machine is bleeding to death
I am not a prophet. I am a farmer; the land has been my livelihood since my youth
frequently wrong, never in doubt
we value morality because only honest men can ever be scientific
When we act, we create our own reality. And while you're busy studying that reality—we'll act again
by our attention we gain the world, and the world becomes a home
That this foreign being, and the still more foreign things he has mixed himself with, be brought back, and out, into us, is a matter of sacred, iron destiny.
without vision the people perish
he who binds to himself a joy
does the winged life destroy;
but he who kisses the joy as it flies
lives in eternity's sun rise
a modern world that has been taken away from what it could have been
if you don't hear from me it means I'm a hack and everyone would be happy if I was gone and I was always a fraud
whatever evil deed has been done by me, may I alone reap its bitter fruit.
if you are at war, call it war;
and give your enemies no peace
the universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of one honest man
Turmoil is fundamental to my entire study; it is the very essence of my work. But the time has come to strive towards a clarity of consciousness
the primal sympathy
which having been must ever be
let him but begin to imagine, to think, to try to anything worth doing; and the engine-turned precision is lost at once
out come all his roughness, all his dullness, all his incapability;
shame upon shame, failure upon failure, pause after pause:
but out comes the whole majesty of him also