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Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

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

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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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Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

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Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

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

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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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Home, home - a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, ...more

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Every one belongs to every one else.

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There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."..."There was a thing called the soul and a thing...more

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He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent delir...more

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No social stability without individual stability.

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Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.