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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.

William S. Burroughs

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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Dreams Place Practice
Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Alive Panic Realize Science Sudden Yourself
There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Innocence Passenger Place
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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Friendship Need Presence Togetherness Yourself
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Change Knowledge Reality Yourself
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Comfortable Dedication Hate Production
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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Awakening Defeat Freedom Life Mindset
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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Absence Connection I Miss You Myself Pain Time Writing
Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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Forever Life Time Waste Yourself
By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Emerge Flaw Photograph Truth
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
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
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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People Silence Verbal
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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Artifact Design Man Present Science Space Travel
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Aware Knowledge Surrounding
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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Alive Avoid Commitment Fact Goal Human Myself Negative Suffering

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