Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under the obligation to unify the word and the deed. As it is I can let my words reach out and net impossible things - things that are impossible for me to do. And this is a way to pay the price for saying or seeing things.

Norman O. Brown's Popular Quotes

To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.

- Norman O. Brown

Meaning is not in things but in between them.

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Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy;…

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

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I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

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In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have lo…

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The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, …

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Love without attachment is light.

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The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure;…

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