ThursdayAug 28, 2025
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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
If we go down into ourselves we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.
The future is made up of the same stuff as the present.
Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for hours on end.
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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