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“I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it.”
― Georges Bataille

“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
― Thomas Pynchon

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
― William S. Burroughs

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That'€™s the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.”
― Octave Mirbeau

“Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.”
― marquis de sade

“Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.”
― Peter Kropotkin, In Russian and French Prisons

“Well-being for all is not a dream.”
― Pyotr Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread

“If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”
― Kathy Acker

“Dreams are manifestations of identities.”
― Kathy Acker, Pussy, King of the Pirates

“Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.”
― Kathy Acker

“Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run.”
― Kathy Acker, Blood and Guts in High School

“A line is a fuse
that's lit.
The line smolders,
the rhyme explodes—
and by a stanza
a city
is blown to bits.”
― Vladimir Mayakovsky

“I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.”
― William S. Burroughs

“You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative”
― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

“I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. ”
― Allen Ginsberg

“Our poetry is courage, audacity and revolt.”
― Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Manifesti Futuristi (1909-1941)

“If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.”
― Murray Bookchin

“I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.”
― Peter Kropotkin, Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“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.”
― Franz Kafka

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
― André Breton, What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings

“Tell me whom you haunt and I’ll tell you who you are.”
― Andre Breton

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
― Charles Dickens