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• I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized three deckers,…
• Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
• In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
• Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
• Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal…
• This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to…
• Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears…
• It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing…
• There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation…
• Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
• What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.
• On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide…

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