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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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"Solitude is a wonderful treasure the world is still yet to discover."

"Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

"I don't dream. Come to think of it, i haven't had any dreams in a long time."

"I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old."

"We must stop calling bribes in our higher institutions "helping my child to gain admission."

"The greatest joy is to be a mirror of God's love."

"You are created to reflect heaven on earth."

"I see that the culture that is prevalent right now in Nigeria and indeed Africa is the culture of GET RICH QUICK."

"As a matter of fact life itself is measured by time."

"Instead it is the Church hierarchy that is rather teaching congregation to be afraid of darkness, instead of teaching them to go with light to overcome darkness."
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"To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know."

"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."

"Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! À bas l'originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le vol-pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight."

"Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning."

"Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear."
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