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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.

William S. Burroughs

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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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