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“The midnight hand Stands upright, Caught for an instant In the pitching chime Of dead day, The hush cries, freedom! And is strangled in the rush Of tomorrow's potential. The midnight hour, When time is still, A shrill gasp of passion unspent, A sour taste Of bent magic In a god's tragic World.”

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Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963

“Realise, fool, Idiot, that it Is not your Potential that counts. It is what you are now, What you are thinking now, Here. Tomorrow is nothing. It does not exist. Today, we lay the patterns For tomorrow. Today is the time to Change everything. Not next week, For Christ's sake. Remember this, Of course, the whole Answer is summed up In one neat word – Death.”

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“Philosophy is, I think, a way to happiness by logical reasoning, to wipe out illogicality’s irrationalities.”

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“The anticipation of anything, act or experience, be what it may, is always better than the accomplishment of it.”

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“The completion of the anticipated is often anticlimactic disillusionment, cruel and harsh. Thus, ideals are good as long as they are unattainable, even though we swear we will attain them.”

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“What I like about ideals is that they want to be hot and passionate and appear nonsensical to the sensible man.”

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“Ideals should be believed, loved and held above all else.”

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“The attainment of ideals is the attainment of perfection, and pure perfection is imperfection since it can only be boring and undesirable. If one could attain the perfection of one's own ideals, it would be just the same.”

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“Today, we lay the pattern for tomorrow. Today is the time to change everything, not next week. For Christ’s sake, remember this. Of course, the whole answer is in one neat word: DEATH.”

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“Maybe those who shout the loudest are the ones who envy one the most.”

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“Could one carve out this ideal [solitary] life without responsibility? Would not one long for company, for music and dancing? For discussion? Would one long for sex, women, for variation, for laughter? That world could prove to be too difficult. I think the bitter reality is that one would long for other people, however hard this is to take.”

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“Things that revolt me most are here. These are the mirrors of my thoughts. The things I curse most are the things I hate within myself. I can have the friends I want. I won’t deceive. I know it will be necessary to be pleasant to people I don’t like. Do things I don’t want to.”

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“One can work better to do things in comfort and for comfort. Need money, and for money, one has to work. So farming appeals to the independent mind. One is at least self-employed.”

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“Ultimately, I shall write the morals for myself. I am only concerned with living a moral life, but my morality, just now, is ineffectual. I don't have the strength to put it into action, but I must get this strength from within myself. From nowhere else does self-integrity come.”

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“Under this heading of 'strength' is a rot which eats slowly within a man's soul. It must be rooted out in its entirety. Then, I can truly discuss philosophy with others, and until then, any further discussion of philosophy is hypothetical, stolen on self-condemnation; the strength of any particular philosophy lies in the power of the philosopher.”

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“It is why it gets so heated and blocks my ears in philosophical arguments, becomes too often the block, won't draw an argument, or quietly compute because then that argument will either be right, in which it is good, or else wrong, in which case it won't matter because I will appreciate it even more.”

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“The real test is for a man to live with himself for an extended period. Alone, there is no room for insincerity or pretensions; he must know what he is. It is then that the doubts arise. If he can live with himself without going mad, then he has achieved something.”

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“A new leaf, a new day, a new place and ten thousand different possibilities – there is sadness at leaving new friends, but travelling is continually in this vein.”

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“So, this journey I know will lead somewhere, but where? When to quit moaning and get on with it.”

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“I wrote in the pursuit of nonsense. What is nonsense? Something that makes no sense, but surely everything makes sense since anything spoken springs from the brain. Within the brain, small though it be, I believe, or I am told, there lies a mechanism association of ideas, so really everything is an association of something which, being so, couldn't be nonsense. It must be 'sense' of some description, but it is in the wrong place.”

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“One waits for the results of promises.”

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“The preacher did not say of ideals that they are only there because we cannot attain them. They are red hot and passionate and should have no reason, like the blind charge of the bull.”

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“The dreariness of an ideal attained is to be tired of life; it is a life without trouble. Heap on me a dunghill of tongue-torn trouble till it fills my mouth and eyes and nose, till it fills up my throat and forces me to cough and vomit it out, and I rise laughing and crusted in trouble.”

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“Consign perfection to the evil to whom it belongs. Why do people insist the devil has so much fun and God has so little? They are crazy with a fear of life and its real pleasures.”

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“I write in the pursuit of nonsense. What the hell is it? I have caught the human disease – definitions.”

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“Vile inhibitions, you sarcastic bastard, but only sarcastic in the face of truth.”

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“The envious rabble chant escapism. Even as I write here, I know how much I must learn. I know how hard it will be to put my moral integrity back whole, not put back, but to build a moral integrity where none previously existed.”

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“Today, we lay the pattern for tomorrow.”

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“Man’s greatest strength lies in his ability to stand alone in solitude.”

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