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It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.
There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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.
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
