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“... ritual is the bridge by which man passes, the ladder by which he climbs from earth to heaven. ... We must not pull down the ladder till we are sure the last angel has climbed.”
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“Prejudices are the refuge of those who cannot think for themselves.”
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“The first kiss ideally signals rapture, exchange of hearts, and imminent marriage. Otherwise it is a kiss that lies. All very crude and nonsensical, and yet it is the staple myth of hundreds of comics called 'Sweethearts,' 'Romantic Secrets' and so forth. The state induced by the kiss is actually self-induced, of course, for few lips are so gifted with electric and psychedelic possibilities.”
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“The dog lay down next to Arthur with his nose a few inches from Arthur's mouth, staring at him as if Arthur were about to speak the secrets of the past.”
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“Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated — economically or politically — by a powerful few.”
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“This search for perfection — which is a search for divinity — is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.”
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“... the family on vacation doesn't truly travel — it explores itself.”
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“Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned, as though they were three characters finally in conversation together, three notes sudddenly making a chord.”