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The ‘whole mix-up of sex and spiritual exercise’ reached an apex during the late 1960s. Various sinister cults attached themselves to the West Coast scene. Some had direct links to the counterculture, twisting the ideals of ‘free love’ to
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“He would be expressing himself from the depths of long days of meditation and suffering, the image that he wanted to communicate having been long tempered in the fire of waiting and passion. The other person, meanwhile, imagined a conventional emotion, the suffering that is hawked around the marketplace, a mass-produced melancholy.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.”
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“Too much thought is bad for the soul, for art, and for crime. It is also a sign of middle age.”
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“The first time that this tribulation appeared in history, it was to strike down the enemies of God. Pharaoh opposed the designs of the Eternal and the plague brought him to his knees. Since the beginning of history, the scourge of God has brought down the proud and the blind beneath His feet. Think on this and fall to your knees.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
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