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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

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Life is an incurable disease.

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

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How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.

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Sorrow everywhere,

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All the accumulations of life, that wear us out—clocks, bodies, consciousness, shoe, breasts—begotten sons—your Communism—'Parano...

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what can he do to escape that fatal Mama—

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Fortunately art is a community effort—a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the...

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America when will you be angelic? When will you take off your clothes?...

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Ai! ai! we do worse! We are in a fix! And you're out, Death let you out, Death had the Mercy, you're done with your century, done with Go...

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Toward education marriage nervous breakdown, operation, teaching school, and learning to be mad, in a dream—what is this life?

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This is the end, the redemption from Wilderness, way for the Wonderer, House sought for All, black handkerchief washed clean by...

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Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.

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Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.

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America, why are your libraries full of tears?

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When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred.

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Groan thru breast and neck, a great Oh! to earth heart

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Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

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