Journal created:
on 14 April 2004 (#2835062)
Updated:
on 29 April 2011
Name:
Blonde Bastard
Location:
Manchester, United Kingdom
You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires ... the dead formalities and vain pretences of your civilisation which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilised world.
Hello. It's me.
If one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.....
If one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.....
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