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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.

William S. Burroughs

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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 prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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Cat Growth Myself People Preference
We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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Face Fact Government Insane Leadership Worse
There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Innocence Passenger Place
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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Act Advantage Himself Man
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
He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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Body Himself Learning Mindset Work
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Black Effective Magic Operate
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Future Leak Present Yourself
I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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Beginning Contact Depression Feeling Man Myself Scare Superior
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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Animal Death Myself Person Philosophy Purpose
The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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Himself Important Individual Possible Training Win
Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Fact Information
I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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Creation Imagination Live Myself World
Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Existence Yourself
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Control Image Machine
Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Cancer Sick Society
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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Business Disease Mindset Trouble Virus World
There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Drugs Feeling Yourself
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
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Appearance Evil Face Need
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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Artist Change Fact Mindset Myself Politics
Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Defeat Hustle Level Mark Yourself
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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Act Areas Explorer Myself Point Space Survey Writing
Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Forever Life Philosophy Vacation
If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Alive Life Surprise Yourself
Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Mindset Open Photograph Yourself

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