Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

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I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.

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Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

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Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

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Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

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Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

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Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

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Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

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I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.

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