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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not…
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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
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Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts…
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The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.
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On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from…
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Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what…
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Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.
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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier…
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He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We…
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
— William S. Burroughs
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I could easily blast so much keef night and day I become a bouhali; a real-gone crazy, a holy untouchable madman unto…
— Brion Gysin
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Nothing is true and everything is permitted.
— Unknown Author
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...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on…
— Irving Kristol
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely…
— John Fowles
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It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything…
— J. Maarten Troost
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In Germany, under the law everything is prohibited except that which is permitted. In France, under the law everything is permitted except…
— Newton N. Minow
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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted. We work in the dark to serve the light.
— Unknown Author
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Everything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd.
— Meat Loaf
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