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It is better to be addicted to opium than to be addicted to money.

— Nico

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The same things happen in different guises.

Banish the faceless reward your grace
Banish the faceless reward your grace.

I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.

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I would say the time has not yet come. I rebel against the present, whenever it is, because I have not seen any change, other than oppositions grow stronger.

I think he was the first man I met who was not afraid of me in some way. We were very similar, like brother and sister. Our spirits are similar.

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

Jerome The Cry for Justice (1915)

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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