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Alan Watts Quote - The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

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The present is always changing the past.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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