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"Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.’ You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you die; and the name of the grave is ‘success’, the name of that grave is hullabullo boom boom horseshit."
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"ah, you always go for the ones who don't really want you"
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"The silence was an intense roar."
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"And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time."
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"The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method."
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"The tree looks like a dog, barking at heaven."
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"It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy."
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"In our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever...listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, It is all one vast awakened thing. We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere: Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing. It's a dream already ended."
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"Cats yawn because they realize that there's nothing to do."
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"and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old"
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"Bein Crazy is the least of my worries."
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"I am always thinking 'What am I doing here? Is this the way I am supposed to feel?'"
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"I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief."
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"Houses are full of things that gather dust"
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"They build their own Hells."
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"i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway."
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"...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing."
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"The truth of the matter is we don't understand our women; we blame on them and it's all our fault."
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"At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave."
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