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Well, not finished and wasn't sure what to think but when I read that Carl Jung considered midlife to be the period of greatest potential for personal growth it gave me a sense of hope I hadn't felt for awhile. "Attachments we once thought were vital
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“The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.”
― The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
― The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
“I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face.”
― Tropic of Capricorn
― Tropic of Capricorn
“The world is a cancer eating itself away... I am think that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music will at last triumph. When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
“Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.”
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“I remember one time - it might have been a couple times - at the Fillmore East in 1970, I was opening for this sorry-ass cat named Steve Miller. Steve Miller didn't have his shit going for him, so I'm pissed because I got to open for this non-playing motherfucker just because he had one or two sorry-ass records out. So I would come late and he would have to go on first and then we got there we smoked the motherfucking place, everybody dug it.”
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