Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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