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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.

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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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