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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.

William S. Burroughs

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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Defense Feeling Intense Love Reserve Risk
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Future Leak Present Yourself
There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Drugs Feeling Yourself
I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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Animal Death Myself Person Philosophy Purpose
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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Himself Important Individual Possible Training Win
If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Alive Life Surprise Yourself
Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Mindset Open Photograph Yourself
You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Fake Food Goodness Meal Quality Yourself
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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Cat Growth Myself People Preference
When you stop growing you start dying.
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Death Growth Stop Yourself
Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Kill Love Natural Pain Perspective
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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Afford Energy Life Pleasure relief Spiritual
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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Hallucination Impact Reality Symbol World
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Consumer Production Simplicity Society
I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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Feeling Hands Myself Reality Representation Science Universe
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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Afraid Face Meaning People Shadow

Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.

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