"My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears."
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"What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of the earth, but actually empty and awake throughout the emptiness and awakedness of everything? It means that I'm empty and awake, that I know I'm empty and awake, and that there's no difference between me and anything else."
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"No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge"
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"Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry."
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"While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light"
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"and the stars were icicles of mockery"
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"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night."
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"Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that."
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"Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it."
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"Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score."
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"I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness."
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"Because the only people for me are the mad ones."
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"My life is a vast inconsequential epic."
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"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."
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"The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together."
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"A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world."
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"The only truth is music."
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"I feel guilty for being a member of the human race."
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"I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work."
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"After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him."
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