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Killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

— Miguel de Unamuno

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It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

Isolation is the worst possible counselor.

Only those who doubt really believe, and those who do not doubt are neither tempted against their faith nor do they truly believe.

The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho (1914)

There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas.

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There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

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Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

Martin Buber Power and Love (1926)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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