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The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

— Henry Miller The Rosy Crucifixion II: Plexus (1953)

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There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957)

Political leaders are never leaders. For leaders we have to look to the Awakeners! Lao Tse, Buddha, Socrates, Jesus, Milarepa, Gurdjiev, Krishnamurti.

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If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

The Colossus of Maroussi (1941)

The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949)

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

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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