Art imitates Nature in this not to dare is to dwindle.
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When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept -- the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.
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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
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