How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere 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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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 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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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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 am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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