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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be…
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The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
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People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination.…
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As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
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Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.
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In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a…
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Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all…
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Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.
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Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification,…
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In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
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We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free…
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed…
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The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever…
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When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with…
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized…
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Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
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No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.
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It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that…
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I am convinced that there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with cannabis (and probably with other drugs) which are,…
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But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of…
— Albert Einstein
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Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase…
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