Dedicated Quote by John Kennedy Toole

“Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.”

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“In my private apocalypse he will be impaled upon his own nightstick.”

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I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.

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