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The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.

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The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that everything must end, the music, ourselves, the moon, e...more

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You have shared your secret. I think you will find it to be an unburdening in many other ways. You have very considerable natural advantages. You have...more

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You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it...fictionalize it, in a wo...more

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A mixture, before the English, of irritation and bafflement, of having this same language, same past, so many same things, and yet not belonging to th...more

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But he was absolutely alone. No one ever wrote to him. Visited him. Totally alone. And I believe the happiest man I have ever met.

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We lack trust in the present, this moment, this actual seeing, because our culture tells us to trust only the reported back, the publicly framed, the ...more

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We shall never fully understand nature (or ourselves), and certainly never respect it, until we dissociate the wild from the notion of usability - how...more

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The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.

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These question-boundaries ...are ours, not of reality. We are led to them, caged by them not only culturally and intellectually, but quite physically,...more

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Despite all the identifying, measuring, photographing, I had managed to set the experience in a kind of present past, a having looked, even as I was t...more