"The only successful philosophies and religions are the ones that flatter us, whether in the name of progress or of hell. Damned or not, man experiences an absolute need to be at the heart of everything."
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"Sublime natures are seldom clean!"
"One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else."
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion"
"To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures."
"Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one."
"Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free."
"I have a sickness doctors can't cure,Inexorably pulling me to the well of my destruction,Consented to be a sacrifice, killed for her love,Eager, like the drunk gulping wine mixed with poison,Shameless were those my nights,Yet my soul loved them beyond all passion."
"If your dreams are to hard to achieve, just achieve"
"Death isn't the end, it's the beginning."
"Next to love, kindness is the most beautiful thing."
"Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely."
"When I am searching for something, it is always waiting for me with open arms."
"Would Crazy Horse have spent this much to remodel a kitchen?"
"A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both."
"The certainty about the uncertain (in view to life) is that it will remain uncertain till the time its certain."
"Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of."
"Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be."
"There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life."
"Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man."