Well, while I'm here I'll do the work and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumb show.

—Allen Ginsberg

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Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he befriended Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and...

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What's the actual identity, what's the actual inner person, is there even an inner self, is there any identity? Anybody's identity problem is the entire universe; it's as vast as the entire universe.

—Allen Ginsberg

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… who drove cross-country seventy-two hours to find out if I had a vision or you / had a vision or he had a vision to find out Eternity.

—Allen Ginsberg

Freedom to cut down world's oldest trees / Freedom to make Indians get down on their knees / And pray to your God and obey your FBI / And freedom to protest if you're not too scared to die.

—Allen Ginsberg

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I have learned that no matter how much I learn about anything, I am always at 'the threshold of ignorance,' a frontier of inner and outer awareness (and lack of it) in which some things have become second nature, some things are new and a little uncomfortable, and some things are a complete mystery.

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I've never walked the same path other people found comfortable and I'm not going to start now.

—Lora Leigh in Forbidden Pleasure

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You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.

—Jonathan Tropper in This is Where I Leave You

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We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

—Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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God has… ordered things that we may learn to bear one another's burdens; for there is no man without his faults, none without his burden. None is sufficient unto himself; none is wise in himself; therefore, we must support one another, comfort, help, teach, and advise one another.

—Thomas à Kempis

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