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The truth was stranger than the official fiction.

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It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.

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The past cannot be redeamed. What has been and what might have been both bring us to what is. To know grief, we must be in the river of time, because ...more

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Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instea...more

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I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.

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Jocko likes salty, Jocko likes sweet, but never bring Jocko any hot sauce, like with jalapenos, because it makes Jocko squirt funny-smelling stuff out...more

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Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to ...more

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Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and of those around you seems to be unremarkable, the...more

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A broken thing can't fix itself.

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In this world only the paranoid survive.

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Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...

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I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck.

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Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happ...more

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Hope, love and faith are in the waiting.

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It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.