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“Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.”
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“Sanity is a cozy lie.”
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“Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds”
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“The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.”
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“What we need is to use what we have.”
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“Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.”
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“Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.”
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“Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.”
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“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings.''”
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“Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.”
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“Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.”
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