Rene Daumal Quotes
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
Quotes to Explore
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I'm constantly hydrating my hair.
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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
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I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.
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Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.
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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
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People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics.
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Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
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Her blue eyes sought the west afar,For lovers love the western star.
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They need to read the Scriptures; where it says in Matthew, chapter 4, verse 17, it says: 'Shut the fuck up.' That's the King James version, by the way.
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Any representation of a god is ultimately a lie, Silk explained. It may be a convenient lie, and it may even be a reverent one; but it's ultimately false. ... Neither image would be more nearly true than the other, or more true than any other-merely more appropriate.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor.
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I honestly think our readers are gonna save the world.
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Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
