"We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown."
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"Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc."
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"To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest."
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"It was only in my forties that I started feeling young."
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"Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there."
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"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive."
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"Music is the can-opener of the soul."
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"She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately--- a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles, windows, purses, saucers all glaring at us an we in each other's arm oblivious. I sit down beside her and she talks--- a flood of talk. Wild consumptive notes of hysteria, perversion, leprosy. I hear not a word because she is beautiful and I love her and now I am happy and willing to die."
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"We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests."
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"'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine."
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"To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in."
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"What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse."
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"We must get going. Tomorrow, tomorrow."
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"He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals"
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"The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself."
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"There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry."
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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."
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"I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans."
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"Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously."
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"The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags."
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