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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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If you want to make order, put your own heart in order, and, having put one's heart in order, one can regulate the family order.
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I want to be a saint, a real saint while I am young, for there is so much work to do.
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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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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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An unnoticed corner of the world suddenly becomes noticed, and when you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it becomes sacred. (On Robert Frank's photography)
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Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?
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Sanity - a trick of agreement
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I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.
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I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.
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Follow your inner moonlight don't hide the madness.
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Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.
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Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.
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Our heads are round so thought can change direction
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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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This is the one and only firmament therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this world are the ways of Heaven.
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My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use -- my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves.
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You too must seek the sun.
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The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene
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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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Inside skull vast as outside skull
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