"Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins."

-- Franz Kafka

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“my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.”
“You can become anything you want to be ... It's a matter of authority. Whatever a man's confidence, that's his capacity.”
“When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.”
“Despite the Internet 's origin in the late 1960s as a government sponsored means of communication between the Department of Defense, private industry, and academia, it has been at its best and generated the greatest economic, social, and technological benefits since it was 'liberated' by the hordes of 'geeks' who were originally hired to run it by employers who were not themselves conversant with computers, and couldn't tell when their employees were exchanging official traffic or trading dirty jokes and recipes for ***** brownies.”
“See-through goes with everything.”
“The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.”
“In the right circumstances, MDMA reduces or sometimes eliminates the neurophysiological fear response to a perceived threat to one's emotional integrity... With a barrier of fear removed, a loving and forgiving awareness seemed to occur quite naturally and spontaneously.”
“Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, Im very fortunate.”

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