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Psychoanalysis and zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. they are anti-existential. nicotine quarantines one out of existence.
-Norman Mailer
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Psychoanalysis And Zen, In My Private Psychic

Norman Mailer
Psychoanalysis and zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. they are anti-existential. nicotine quarantines one out of existence.
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