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I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. 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. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.
Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that’s just ridiculous. It’s as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street it’s for a reason.
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
