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Other than that, everything is shit – everything except philosophy, that is. Without her, I'd be just a piece of shit.

— Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

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Washing the entire skin with soap every day is the duty of everyone who wants to consider themselves human.

There is nothing great and beautiful except death.

Farewell to Autumn (1927)

I hate her for having to love her so much.

Farewell to Autumn (1927)

And life could be so beautiful, so terribly cool: Kaśka and I, after a whole day of inhuman work, would have a big beer!

The Shoemakers (1931)

There are rumors about me, sucked from the big toe of someone's dirty leg.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

Martin Buber Power and Love (1926)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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