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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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.