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“Sometimes perhaps a short life and a happy one is better than anything we doctors can offer.”

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“This is what you get. To work in a nice place with a few interesting people, to have friends with whom to discuss life and ideas. To attend the theatre, to hear live music, to arrange the use of the studio room on Monday nights for the local philosophy reading group. Oh, Kierkegaard, that'll be interesting. To exercise once again, for a little time, who knows how long, the power to charm and fascinate, to be the object of an intense and searching desire. And to feel inside herself the reciprocating force of desire, this is what she gets, a life of her own.”

“Sacrificing animals to a fancied god is a stone-age thought. It is an unrighteous act; is not dharma. It is bad karma. If at all, then, do sacrifice your silly ego, your bad deeds and vile thoughts. The Divine seeks no beastly sacrifice. It is the deed of an un-realized lot.”