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Allen Ginsberg Inspirational Quotes (155)

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he threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it
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They [Nicaragua] haven't had elections because they are in a state of seige by the United States. They would have had elections if the U.S. had left them alone. But the U.S. has mounted a full scale war against them. So how can you ask them to behave normally?
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To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.
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Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question How does one become a prophet?]
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Mind is shapely, Art is shapely.
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I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.
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We love to be hurt and we love to have our unhealing wounds opened and reopened again: we sit staring in the mirror of art, fascinated by our own deformities.
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I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.
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Who’ll come lie down in the dark with me Belly to belly and knee to knee Who’ll look into my hooded eye Who’ll lie down under my darkened thigh?
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When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.
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Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!
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Subject is known by what she sees.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.
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The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air, the bodies of the soul that built the wonderland shuffled and stalked and stalked and lurched in attitudes of immemorial nightmare all around.
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You assume we are all sexually stable while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits its repression in various forms of social sadism.
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I know too much and not enough
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So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, 'You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic.'
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Follow your inner moonlight don't hide the madness.
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Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?
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Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse.
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None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.
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The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open.
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This is the same notion - Catholic exorcism, psychotherapy, shamanistic practices - getting to the moment when whatever it was gained access. And also to the name of the spirit. Just to know that it's the Ugly Spirit. That's a great step. Because the spirit doesn't want its name to be known.
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we're all golden sunflowers inside.
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