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What is obscenity? And to whom?
Allen Ginsberg
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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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I've got enough money to live where I want, but I don't want to move.Go out and have sexual adventures in Burma.
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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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None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.
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Candor disarms paranoia.
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Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!
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How sick i am! that thought Always comes to me with horror. Is it this strange for everybody? But such fugitive feelings have always been my metier.
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I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power at any rate it is one difference. In less romantic and visionary terms, I am a Jew, (with powers of introspection and eclecticism attendant, perhaps.) But I am alien to your natural grace, to the spirit which you would know as a participator in America.
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Night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get ready for all the battles that you have to fight tomorrow.
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I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.
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The suffering itself is not so bad it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.
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Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.
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What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?
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Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness.
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Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?
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Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.
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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.
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I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.
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You too must seek the sun.
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Scientist alone is true poet.
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