Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSYou must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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