

“Religiosity that is hostile to sex is the product of authoritarian society.”
― The Mass Psychology of Fascism
― The Mass Psychology of Fascism

“Become so very free that your whole existence is an act of rebellion.”
― The Rebel
― The Rebel

“I once witnessed a rather unfortunate production of Shakespeare's Hamlet - the lead actor didn't know his existential angst from his iambic pentameter and, alas, poor Yorick was a bemused bystander.”
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“The value of the matter is not worth one one ten-thousandth the value of the form,” said Drake.”
― The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid/The Golden Apple/Leviathan
― The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid/The Golden Apple/Leviathan

“The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.”
― Listen, Little Man!
― Listen, Little Man!
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