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The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

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In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary, things and ...more

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Thanks to words we have been able to rise above the brutes and thanks to words we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

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At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time having a purpos...more

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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

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Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant an...more

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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

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Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

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Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective meditation.

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For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

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We float in language like icebergs – four-fifths under the surface and only one-fifth of us projecting into the open air of immediate, non-linguistic ...more

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Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest...more

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Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society.

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It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical.