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Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
Allen Ginsberg
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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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Let go of the spirit of the departed, and continue the celebration of your own life.
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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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Presumably, if you see spirit at the moment it gained access, then it'll be dropped.
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I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no degree of love or intensity of feeling that does not bring with it the possibility of a crippling hurt. But, it is a duty to take that risk and love without reserve or defense.
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The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.
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Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!
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You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.
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Naked in solitary prison cell he looks down at a hard-on.
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I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.
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Now I have enough money to travel wherever I want, but I haven't got the health.
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Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question How does one become a prophet?]
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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
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