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I was transformed the day
My ego shattered,
And all the superficial, material
Things that mattered
To me before,
Suddenly ceased
To matter.

There was a period when I believed stuff meant something. I thought that if you had matching side chairs and a sofa that harmonized and some beautiful lamps to light them you would have a home, that elegance signaled happiness.

The moment you are wrapped up in the world, you become blind to the things wrapped in the mysteries.

The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality.

Thomas Mann, German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)

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All things can be deadly to us, even the things made to serve us; as in nature walls can kill us, and stairs can kill us, if we do not walk circumspectly.

Things have their time, even eminence bows to timeliness.

Baltasar Gracián, Aragonese Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher in Castilian language (1601-1658)

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Don't spend money on things... spend money on experiences. You'll enjoy life a lot more!

If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Francis Bacon, English philosopher and statesman (1561–1626)

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My interest in “issues” is merely to point out how badly we’re doing, not to suggest a way we might do better. Don’t confuse me with those who cling to hope. I enjoy describing how things are, I have no interest in low they “ought to be.

To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things.

The things you used to own, now they own you.

It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between the worthwhile ends to which money might be put and the often morally trivial and destructive mechanisms of its generation.

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