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It is more vital to study men than books.

Can you create something real, important, and beautiful on demand?

What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each-other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measureable time and space.

I was myself the compass of that sea.

You are just a plink on a piano.

She was intrepid to the point of temerity.

My body is a temple, and I only baptize my palate in the cool, refreshing waters of LaCroix.

Elegance overrides any question of indecency.

Can flocks of chattering sparrows share the eagle’s solitary path?

When in doubt, castle.

If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.

All beautiful girls have to do is wake up in the morning.

Do not mistake amenities for necessities.

It’s okay, you know, to have enough.

I prefer people puzzled rather than contemptuous.

Jokes on her, my fetish is fake orgasms.

A genius with a mission is above the law.

I’ve had enough of the materialism and meritocracy of the bourgeoisie.

The nature of science is humility, the nature of religion is obstinacy.

We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time…like tears in rain…time to die.

Self improvement is masturbation.

Human virtue is knowledge; human vice is ignorance.

What makes a great person is not what makes a great roommate.

When you treat other human beings as valuable instead of dignified, you do injustice to yourself and humanity.

Massive men lead lives of quiet desperation.

A utilitarian society is poisonous to great men.

A man’s character is his fate.

Philosophical books are the ultimate kind of self-help books, but philosophy is not for the kind of people who read self help books.

You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

It is that, that it is.

Tigers love pepper, they hate cinnamon.

Sun sets. Wind dies. Coal power.

If you have to rush in life, rush slowly.

It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists at all.

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.

You know the path, but can you walk it?

Have you ever stood and stared at it? Marveled at its genius? Billions of people living out their lives, oblivious.

In the Olympic games it is not the most beautiful or strong that are crowned, but those who compete.

Nihilists can comb their hair…

Providence don’t fire no blank cartridges, boys.

Fatigue delivered him to Sleep, Sleep betrayed him to Death.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Wage labor is slave labor. If you sell yourself you lose both your dignity and independence.

In a little while you will have forgotten everything; in a little while everything will have forgotten you.

Anger is the stuff of tragic actors and whores.

The universe is transformation; life is opinion.

There is the man I was, the man I am, and the man I want to be.

My only hope is that the big Lebowski kills me before the Germans can cut my dick off.

Death is a wilderness in which everyone is lost for words.

A limit of time is fixed for you, which is you do not use for clearing away the clouds from your mind, it will go and you will go and it will never return.

We live, as we dream, alone.

There is never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

Today is a victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

Nobody. I’m nobody. I’m a tramp, a bum, a hobo. I’m a boxcar and a jug of wine. And a straight razor if you get too close.

Sometimes one gets the idea that life thinks it’s still living in Paris in the 30s.

The visions of a woman in motion are difficult to gage.

She didn’t drink or use adjectives. Wasn’t really my type.

Eternity is a mere moment. Just long enough for a joke.

Come, let’s live out a lifetime underneath the bedsheets. Let lives flow in between the spare moments we have left together.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Feast your ears on this spindoctors mix Mr. Mayor!

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

The torrent of her eloquence could be compared with nothing save Niagara.

Stay, thou art fair.

Death is a debt to nature due, which I will pay and so must you.

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, short.

We knew who were were and where we were going, it was grand.

Now that everybody’s in a hurry, lets ride your bicycle through the rice fields.

A fish pitched up by the angry sea, I gasped on land and I became me.

Every man is a suffering machine and a happiness machine combined.

When would be a good time to fade out of your life?

The revolution will not be televised.

To be fly was to be, you know.

How we spend our days is how we spend our lives.

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

You can’t scare a chicken with your face!

A truce was established between the present hour and the irresistible, disastrous future.

A human being in perfection ought to always preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never allow passion of a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

That wasn’t trying too hard, was it?

I think it’s important not to take it as a rejection of you personally.

You’re really reaching out.

Eventually you’ll get tired of slumming it.

What is the point of being an outlaw when you have responsibilities?

Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side.

Congratulations hippie scum and welcome to a world of inconvenience.

Despair must be kept private and brief.

He considers not what is respectable, but what is respected.

It is a dangerous habit to finger loaded firearms in the pocket of one’s dressing-gown.

The oppressed, abused and dis-empowered (of any kind, anywhere, man or woman) find comfort in the promise that justice and peace are real.

Try basing all of life’s philosophy on love and wisdom and see where that gets you.

Until you bleed Franzia, you have not reached Nirvana.