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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Alan Watts

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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Faith Float Freedom Grab Relaxation Swim Trust Water Yourself
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Actual Command Feeling Love Pretend
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Humanity Humor Knowledge Laugh Oneself
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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Book Consume Currency Eat Life Money Paper Real Scripture Wealth
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Capable Enjoyment Individual Satisfaction
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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Change Deceive Thinking
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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Achievement Alive Life Panic
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
I owe my solitude to other people.
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One Liner Owe People Solitude
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Persistent Philosophy Problem Question Suspect Wrong
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Music Play Violin

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