"we're all golden sunflowers inside."
"So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, 'You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic.'"
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Source: Allen Ginsberg, “Sunflower Sutra”
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