Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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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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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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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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