“Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores

'How many men stand on a balcony and wonder what happened?...

He wanted adventure and he got two weeks' vacation. He wanted a mission and he got a lawn that needs mowing. He wanted purpose and he got a cubicle. He wanted a mighty steed and he got a minivan. He wanted a castle

“You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.”

― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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“As the creators of sophisticated technologies, we have made ourselves increasingly machine-like; robotic servants of institutional systems we have been conditioned to revere, whose purposes we neither understand nor control, and of which we are afraid to ask questions.

Our

“Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.”
― Paul Bowles

“Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.”

~ Albert Einstein

“Something else is hurting you—that’s why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can’t think.”

—Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

“Modern technology teaches man to take for granted the world he is looking at; he takes no time to retreat and reflect.

Technology lures him on, dropping him into its wheels and movements. No rest, no meditation, no reflection, no conversation – the senses are continually

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
You were famous, your heart was a legend
You told me again you preferred handsome men
But for me you would make an exception
And clenching your fist for the ones like us
Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty
You fixed yourself, you

“…the devil of the dullest place in the world to live, one store and no beer in it—People watering their prison lawns, children with dogs, mid-Industrial America in the afternoon…”

— Jack Kerouac

“Maybe self-improvement isn’t the answer,
maybe self-destruction is the answer. “

--Chuck Palahniuk

“I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you.”

— Nick Cave

“In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood… Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.”

— Edward Abbey

Passion is greater than existence,
the meaning of life is of more worth
than life itself.

— Stefan Zweig

“If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.”

― Mikhail Bakunin

All this Americanizing and mechanizing has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.

~ D. H. LAWRENCE

'This world was created from God's fear of solitude. In other words, us, the creatures, have no other meaning but to distract the Creator. Poor clowns of the absolute, we forget that we live dramas for the boredom of a spectator, whose claps have never reached the ears of a

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”

— Sylvia Plath

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