Rene Daumal Quotes
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I always loved going to Hawai'i; it was very, very special.
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Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'
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Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.
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As soon as they're out of your sight, you are out of their mind.
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My father writings stuff was always his personal stuff, like about the day we had to put our dog down, or finding old photographs of his father, or passing a guy he went to boarding school with on a street in New York. Very specific, detailed, descriptive columns that he wrote. I think in a way, it could be argued that my best songs are that way too. They're almost journalistic in that they're very clear, and very specific, and they describe things.
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The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.
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I didn't see him, but I heard the noise and wondered what was going on. It was great he came by.
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
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Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
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The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression.
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In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.
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Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly.
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Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish to live in error? We do not. No one who lives in error is free. Do you wish to live in fear? Do you wish to live in sorrow? Do you wish to live in tension? By no means. No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties, he is at the same time also delivered from servitude.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.
