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Jump off. You are a protected individual. Do not fear.
Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.
It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris.
It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.
We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.
The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.
In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner.
I used to think a bird couldn't fly if its wings got wet.
When you travel often, you will be addicted to it forever.
The piano bar is the gateway to the halls of masturbation.
It was here in Big Sur that I first learned to say 'amen.'
The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.
All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet.
The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world.
The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.
Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.
Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.
Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.
Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown.
There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder.
It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens.
My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once.
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.
Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.
Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.
You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.
There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart.
...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.
The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.
Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.
Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.
In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.