Bad poetry is really just a misplaced punchline.
That which is unnatural is easily destroyed.
All holidays are born of some kind of revolution.
nature will always find a way to destroy man's ability to fight himself
An ignorant, frightened society will always put into power a leader whose religious convictions will seem to promise progress and safety, but whose political principles lead to regression and insecurity.
orgasm, that benevolent tyrant, the unthinking power of a human need
the revelers fled deep into the wood
If you're flooded with flattery, you'll feel the drought of trust.
Life destroys life, death nutures death
supreme dysfunction--the ruin of predestination, ordered and abused, the highest possibility of complete freedom, a renegade fate, a depraved paradise
the gods of a people don't protect against the weapons of their foe
no technology is ever effecient
perfection is but an elaborate simplicity
the most beloved leaders of nations are those who neglect their domestic affairs
disconnected in a mechanized, over-stimulated world, trapped in a mindless haze of general ignorance
all obsessions are suspicious.
The only force that can kill a great person is friendship.
Art does not stem from any natural human impulse. Art is not an end in itself, like a virtue. It is indecision. It is the undefinition of oblivion. It is anti-significance. Art is dependent on total independence from all mental and sensual validation.
morality is the despot of the intellect