You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI 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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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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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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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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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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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