when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the inevitability of death and how it contributes to personal growth and transformation.
William S. Burroughs' quote explores the complex relationship between death and growth, suggesting that with each end comes a new beginning. It implies that recognizing and accepting the inevitability of death can lead to greater understanding and personal development, emphasizing that death is not just an end but also a catalyst for renewal and change.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a reflective speech on life and loss.
God save the Queen and a fascist regime β¦ a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any direction, is the basic law on which Limey-Land is built. The Queen stabilizes the whole sinking shithouse and keeps a small elite of wealth and privilege on top. The English have gone soft in the outhouse. England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead. Ingloriously foundering in its own waste products, the backlash and bad karma of empire
Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't.
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.
Language is a virus from outer space.
One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and donβt know they know... Once the breakthrough is made, there is a permanent expansion of awareness. But there is always a reaction of rage, of outrage, at the first breakthrough... So the artist, then, expands awareness. And once the breakthrough is made, this becomes part of the general awareness.
We must respect the interior laws of creation, of this Earth, to learn these laws and obey them if we want to survive.
The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods
The question is how much of your privacy and your convenience and your commerce do you want your nation's security apparatus to squeeze in order to keep you safe? And it is a choice that we have to make.
I thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I thought that maybe happiness wasn't really anything more than the knowledge of a life well spent, in spite of whatever immediate discomfort you had to undergo, and that if a life well spent meant compromises and conciliations and reconciliations, and suffering at the hands of the person you love, well then better that than live without honor.
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.
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