There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely desperate.
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
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Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
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