Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas.

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The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

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Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

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To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

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The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.

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The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

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Beauty is a rebellion against time.

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The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

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The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

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Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.

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