“[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.”
― The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
― The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
“The need for frequent chemical vacations from intolerable selfhood and repulsive surroundings will undoubtedly remain. What is needed is a new drug which will relieve and console our suffering species without doing more harm in the long run than it does good in the short.”
― The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
― The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
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“The fine point of seldom pleasure has been blunted”
― The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
― The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
“The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.”
― The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
― The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
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