"I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth."

Life, Growth, Being, Expression

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"I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth."

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"And her delicacy offended. Who wants a delicate whore! Claude would even ask you to turn your face away when she squatted over the bidet. All wrong! A man, when he's burning up with passion, wants to see things; he wants to see everything, even how they make water."

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"It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd."

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"Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am."

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"I think if Jeremy Corbyn got a cloak, he'd make a very good Gandalf."

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"Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action."

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"Tomorrow is no hazardous affair, a day like any other day: tomorrow is the result of many yesterdays and comes with a potent, cumulative effect. I am tomorrow what I chose to be yesterday and the day before. It is not possible that tomorrow I may negate and nullify everything that led me to this present moment."

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"It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things."

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"I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots."

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"New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there, the lepers, the thugs, and above all, the ennui, the monotony of faces, streets, legs, houses, skyscrapers, meals, posters, jobs, crimes, loves... A whole city erected over a hollow pit of nothingness. Meaningless. Absolute meaningless."

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