“ The difference between a nonsuicide and an exsuicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The nonsuicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The exsuicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to. ”
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“ If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic. ”
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“ Without faith, people perish, and they are perishing before our eyes ”
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“ Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place. ”
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“ Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos-novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes-you are beyond doubt the strangest? ”
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“ You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. ”
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“ You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. ”
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“ I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free. ”
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“ You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. ”
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“ Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past. ”
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“ Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past. ”
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“ Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past. ”
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“ Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past. ”
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“ You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. ”
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“ Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past. ”
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“ Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past. ”
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“ You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. ”
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“ You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. ”
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“ I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free. ”
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“ Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos-novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes-you are beyond doubt the strangest? ”
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“ Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past. ”
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“ To become aware of the possiblity of the search is to be onto something. ”
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“ To become aware of the possiblity of the search is to be onto something. ”
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“ The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair. ”
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