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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.


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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.



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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.



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The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.

The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.



It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.

It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.



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Unless our ideas are questioned, they become part of the furniture of eternity.




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