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" Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?' "

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" Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning. "

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" Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. "

" All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. "

" The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive. "

" In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. "

" No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe. "

" Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. "

" The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition. "

" Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets. "

" In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other. "

" The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon. "

" Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur. "

" The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. "

" We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. "

" Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. "

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" One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. "

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" There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him. "