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If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.


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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.



Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.



Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.



Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.



I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.



It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.



I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.



I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am free and that is why I am lost.



I am a cage, in search of a bird.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.



People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.





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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.

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Maybe if the empty space inside her was filled with love there'd be no room for sad and dark things.

Maybe if the empty space inside her was filled with love there'd be no room for sad and dark things.



I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right.

I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right.



When you have seen the things I have seen and traveled all over the world, you would not be honest to yourself and the world to [look away].

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A kind Of excellent dumb discourse.

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Just because your prince hasn't come doesn't mean you're not a princess.

Just because your prince hasn't come doesn't mean you're not a princess.




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