Posted by: DaVe RaNdOm
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix.
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.
The whole is in the small things: the child is small but contains the man, the mind is restricted and it creates thought, the eye is but a dot but it embraces spaces.
What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
'Cats don't have names,' it said.
'No?' said Coraline.
'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.
You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
Think of the millions of people who live together even if they don't like it, they hate their job but are afraid of losing it, it's normal that they should have the face they have.
They think I'm mad because I'm not willing to sell my days for gold... and I think them crazy because they think my days may have a price.
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.