There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe 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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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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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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