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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.

William S. Burroughs

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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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