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Thou Shalt Play And Be Silly
1.If you are not silly, it is vital that you become silly
2.If you are silly, you must stay silly
3.If you used to be silly but have stopped, you must make all efforts to return to silliness
— Màiri Standing Otter
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One day, a friend of Balzac walked into his studio unannounced.” Balzac, who was at the time working on a novel, turned around, got up suddenly, took the friend’s arm in a state of supreme exaltation, and exclaimed with tears in his eyes: ‘What horror! The Duchess of Langeais has died. ‘His visitor looked at him bewildered. He knew Paris society well, but he had never heard mention of such a duchess of Langeais…Balzac had that death as present as if he had seen it with his own eyes, and had not yet awakened from his productive slumber. Only when he noticed the surprise of his visitor, did he realize he was again in the other world, in the one of reality.
- Stefan Zweig
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There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind — you are the one who hears it…People go through so many changes in the name of ‘trying to find myself.’ They want to discover which of these voices, which of these aspects of their personality, is who they really are. The answer is…
