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They asked me my goal in life. I said, to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race and see if it could be mass-produced in plastic.
The illusion you’re doing something to help yourself helps you.
“You’re fucked by who you are.”
“The art has its reasons, which reason knows nothing of.”
If 80 percent of life is showing up, the other 80 percent, as Yogi Berra might’ve said, is chance.
the red flags existed every few feet, but nature provides us with a denial mechanism, else we couldn’t make it through the days, as Freud teaches us, as Nietzsche teaches us, as O’Neill teaches us, as T. S. Eliot teaches us.
Psychiatrists say in times of crisis one becomes who one is only more so.
a dog does not see its own tail.
People believe what is important for them to believe, and each person has his or her own reason, sometimes not even known to them.
Rather than live on in the hearts and mind of the public, I prefer to live on in my apartment.
