"The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable."
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"I was laying in bed one night and I thought 'I'll just quit - to hell with it.' And another little voice inside me said 'Don't quit - save that tiny little ember of spark.' And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again."
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"This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're gonna lose everything...just to do nothing at all, very, very important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few. That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful."
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"People empty me. I have to get away to refill."
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"The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative."
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"I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again."
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"Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?"
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"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."
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"I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself."
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"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose."
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"If I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains."
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"I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being."
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"You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad."
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"Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice."
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"It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left."
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"Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself."
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"But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself."
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"An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way"
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"Are you becoming what you've always hated?"
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"People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love."
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