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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. "

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" I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. "

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" We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy. "

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" True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. "

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" What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it? "

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" 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. "

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