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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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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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None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.
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Sanity - a trick of agreement
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No rest without love, no sleep without dreams of love- be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines, the final wish is love -cannot be bitter, cannot deny, cannot withhold if denied: the weight is too heavy
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Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
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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 don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.
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From it's inception Beat poetry was hailed as something NEW and like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected - by hip people who listen. But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach.
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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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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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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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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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Things are symbols of themselves.
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Many seek and never see, anyone can tell them why. O they weep and O they cry and never take until they try unless they try it in their sleep and never some until they die. I ask many, they ask me. This is a great mystery.
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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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The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!
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I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone.
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When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.
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one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others
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Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!
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