What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.

Boris Pasternak

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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ego clouds and disrupts everything.

I am not strange. I am just not normal.

If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.

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