Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
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The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.Norman Mailer
It is the actions of men and not their sentiments that make history. Our sentiments can be loaded with love within, but our actions can turn into the opposite. Perversity is always ready to consort with human nature.
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One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness -- the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.
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It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
Norman Mailer
somewhere between crime and art.
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