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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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.

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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?

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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.

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in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen

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Language is a virus from outer space.

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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.

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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

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Paranoia is just having the right information.

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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

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