The simplest questions are the most difficult.

William S. Burroughs
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  2. Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.

  3. Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

  4. A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

  5. The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible

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