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Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights.

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Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation.
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I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
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Absolute Anything Believe Full Include Luck Stop
The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.
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He pays for his social ease with what used to be called his soul – his discriminations, his uniqueness, his psychic energy, his self.
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When you make a bet, you’re saying something.
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Seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.
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After Basement Depression Descent Down Elevator Layer Merely Seem Stop Temporary Through
Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it’s a kind of risky trade.
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Since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.
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Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.
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Become Climb Hard Increase Increasingly Perhaps Society
Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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Divorce Drama Habit Transform
In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets’ nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.
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I’m good at reading people.
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Good People Reading
When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself.
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The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
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In the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
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