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Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea of nature demands that the giver of life should die at the moment of giving.
-Maurice Maeterlinck
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Most Creatures Have A Vague Belief That

Maurice Maeterlinck
Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea of nature demands that the giver of life should die at the moment of giving.
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Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. all our pleasures are dependent on it. even though i arrange for a pleasure, and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. wherever time passes, there is hazard.
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Someone's killed 100,000 people. we're almost going, "well done! you killed 100,000 people? you must get up very early in the morning! i can't even get down the gym. your diary must look odd: 'get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death - lunch - death, death, death - afternoon tea - death, death, death - quick shower ...' "
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It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. how if you saw through the garden too? it is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. if you see through everything, then everything is transparent. but a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. to 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.
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"it's better to give than to receive." let me put this as elegantly as possible: "what a crock!" that statement is total hogwash, and in case you haven't noticed, it's usually propagated by people and groups who want you to give and them to receive. the whole idea is ludicrous. what's better, hot or cold, big or small, left or right, in or out? giving and receiving are two sides of the same coin. whoever decided that it is better to give than to receive was simply bad at math. for every giver their must be a receiver, and for every receiver there must be a giver.
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