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"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell."
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"I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect."
"He fashioned hell for the inquisitive."
"Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too."
"The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way."
"My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out."
"I just had one of those "what the hell are we doing" moments."
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"Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones."
"Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape."
"When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach."
"So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair."
"I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat."
"It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present."
"There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him."
"Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others."
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