How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSYour mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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The world is now a virus.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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