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“The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.”
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“Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.”
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“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”
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“The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment”
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“Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.”
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“One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.”
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“There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase ''the pursuit of happiness'' is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.”
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“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”
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“The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.”
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“Boredom: the desire for desires”
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“Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the other undermining the essential concept of human responsibility”
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