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  2+In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy.
  3+  -- Jenny Holzer
  4+%
  5+Turn soft and lovely anytime you have the chance.
  6+  -- Jenny Holzer
  7+%
  8+SPIT ALL OVER SOMEONE WITH A MOUTHFUL OF MILK IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR PERSONALITY FAST.
  9+  -- Jenny Holzer
 10+%
 11+If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.
 12+  -- Jenny Holzer,  -- Jenny Holzer
 13+%
 14+You are a victim of the rules you live by.
 15+  -- Jenny Holzer
 16+%
 17+Destroy superabundance. Starve the flesh, shave the hair, clarify the mind, define the will, restrain the senses, leave the family, flee the church, kill the vermin,vomit the heart, forget the dead. Limit time, forgo amusement, deny nature, reject acquaintances, discard objects, forget truths, dissect myth, stop motion, block impulse, choke sobs, swallow chatter. Scorn joy, scorn touch, scorn tragedy, scorn liberty, scorn constancy, scorn hope, scorn exaltation, scorn reproduction, scorn variety, scorn embellishment, scorn release, scorn rest, scorn sweetness, scorn light. It's a question of form as much as function. It is a matter of revulsion.
 18+  -- Jenny Holzer
 19+%
 20+Boredom makes you do crazy things.
 21+  -- Jenny Holzer
 22+%
 23+You confuse me with something that is in you. I will not predict how you want to use me.
 24+  -- Jenny Holzer
 25+%
 26+It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.
 27+  -- Jenny Holzer
 28+%
 29+BY YOUR RESPONSE TO DANGER IT IS
 30+EASY TO TELL HOW YOU HAVE LIVED
 31+AND WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO YOU.
 32+YOU SHOW WHETHER YOU WANT TO STAY ALIVE,
 33+WHETHER YOU THINK YOU DESERVE TO,
 34+AND WHETHER YOU BELIEVE
 35+IT'S ANY GOOD TO ACT.
 36+  -- Jenny Holzer
 37+%
 38+Protect me from what I want.
 39+  -- Jenny Holzer
 40+%
 41+Ruin your fucking self before they do. Otherwise they'll screw you because you're a nobody. They'll keep you alive but you'll have to crawl and say "thank-you" for every bone they throw. You might as well stay drunk or shoot junk and be a crazy fucker. If the rich guys want to play with you, make them get their hands dirty. Send them away gagging, or sobbing if they're soft-hearted. You'll be left alone if you're frightening, and dead you're free!
 42+  -- Jenny Holzer
 43+%
 44+Food won't go down when you know your mother didn't want you, never liked to feed you, always hated you in her rooms. You were wrong to clutch and swallow and move your mouth. You must not be flushed, layered in fat or ripe from meat or she will despise your sight. Your skeleton cries, "I make no demands, I am ashamed of my needs, I am unworthy. I'm aware of those more deserving, those with prior and urgent claims to food." Skeleton says, "My safety is in slightness, my pride is denial. My victory is no gluttony, no guilt.
 45+  -- Jenny Holzer
 46+%
 47+Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.
 48+  -- Jenny Holzer
 49+%
 50+Raise boys and girls the same way.
 51+  -- Jenny Holzer
 52+%
 53+SOME DAYS YOU WAKE AND
 54+IMMEDIATELY START TO WORRY.
 55+NOTHING IN PARTICULAR IS WRONG,
 56+ITS JUST THE SUSPICION THAT
 57+FORCES ARE ALIGNING QUIETLY
 58+AND THERE WILL BE TROUBLE.
 59+  -- Jenny Holzer
 60+%
 61+THERE IS A PERIOD WHEN IT IS CLEAR
 62+THAT YOU HAVE GONE WRONG
 63+BUT YOU CONTINUE.
 64+SOMETIMES THERE IS A
 65+LUXURIOUS AMOUNT OF TIME
 66+BEFORE ANYTHING BAD HAPPENS.
 67+  -- Jenny Holzer
 68+%
 69+Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.
 70+  -- Jenny Holzer
 71+%
 72+Knowing yourself lets you understand others.
 73+  -- Jenny Holzer
 74+%
 75+Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionary.
 76+  -- Jenny Holzer
 77+%
 78+Going with the flow is soothing but risky.
 79+  -- Jenny Holzer
 80+%
 81+I WALK IN / I SEE YOU / I WATCH YOU / I SCAN YOU / I WAIT FOR YOU / I TICKLE YOU / I TEASE YOU / I SEARCH YOU / I BREATHE YOU / I TALK / I SMILE / I TOUCH YOUR HAIR / YOU ARE THE ONE / YOU ARE THE ONE WHO DID THIS TO ME / YOU ARE MY OWN / I SHOW YOU / I FEEL YOU / I ASK YOU / I DONT ASK / I DONT WAIT / I WONT ASK YOU / I CANT TELL YOU / I LIE / I AM CRYING HARD / THERE WAS BLOOD / NO ONE TOLD ME / NO ONE KNEW / MY MOTHER KNOWS / I FORGET YOUR NAME / I DONT THINK / I BURY MY HEAD / I BURY YOUR HEAD / I BURY YOU / MY FEVER / MY SKIN / I CANNOT BREATHE / I CANNOT EAT / I CANNOT WALK / I AM LOSING TIME / I AM LOSING TIME / I AM LOSING GROUND / I CANNOT STAND IT / I CRY / I CRY OUT / I BITE / I BITE YOUR LIP / I BREATHE YOUR BREATH / I PULSE / I PRAY / I PRAY ALOUD / I SMELL YOU ON MY SKIN / I SAY THE WORD / I SAY YOUR NAME / I COVER YOU / I SHELTER YOU / I RUN FROM YOU / I SLEEP BESIDE YOU / I SMELL YOU ON MY CLOTHES / I KEEP YOUR CLOTHES
 82+  -- Jenny Holzer
 83+%
 84+Expressing anger is necessary.
 85+  -- Jenny Holzer
 86+%
 87+With all the holes in you already there's no reason to define the outside environment as alien.
 88+  -- Jenny Holzer
 89+%
 90+At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.
 91+  -- Jenny Holzer
 92+%
 93+YOU SHOULD LIMIT THE NUMBER OF TIMES
 94+YOU ACT AGAINST YOUR NATURE,
 95+LIKE SLEEPING WITH PEOPLE YOU HATE.
 96+ITS INTERESTING TO TEST YOUR CAPABILITIES FOR A WHILE
 97+BUT TOO MUCH WILL CAUSE DAMAGE.
 98+  -- Jenny Holzer
 99+%
100+A sense of timing is the mark of a genius.
101+  -- Jenny Holzer
102+%
103+A positive attitude means all the difference in the world.
104+  -- Jenny Holzer
105+%
106+How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire.
107+  -- Jenny Holzer
108+%
109+I try to excite myself so I stay crazy.
110+  -- Jenny Holzer
111+%
112+Being happy is more important than anything else.
113+  -- Jenny Holzer
114+%
115+Fear is the greatest incapacitator.
116+  -- Jenny Holzer
117+%
118+Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular.
119+  -- Jenny Holzer
120+%
121+Deviants are sacrificed to increase group solidarity.
122+  -- Jenny Holzer
123+%
124+Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway.
125+  -- Jenny Holzer
126+%
127+FEMALE VOICE: 'The truth is people are pushed around by two men who move all the bodies on earth into patterns that please them.'
128+
129+MALE VOICE: 'I love my mind when it is fucking the cracks of events.'
130+
131+MALE VOICE: 'What I give to all the people who do not want to live with me is arithmetic.'
132+
133+FEMALE VOICE: 'Everyday, I do nothing important because I am scared blank and lazy. But then the men come. I put my mouth on them. I spit and write with the wet.'
134+
135+MALE VOICE: 'I was not born live. This body grew but I did not feel cells split.
136+  -- Jenny Holzer
137+%
138+She has no taste left to her and this makes it easier for me.
139+The color of her where she is inside is enough to make me kill her.
140+  -- Jenny Holzer
141+%
142+A lot of professionals are crackpots.
143+  -- Jenny Holzer
144+%
145+IT'S AN EXTRAORDINARY FEELING
146+WHEN PART OF YOUR BODY ARE
147+TOUCHED FOR THE FIRST TIME.
148+I'M THINKING OF THE SENSATIONS
149+FROM SEX AND SURGERY.
150+  -- Jenny Holzer
151+%
152+I KNOW WHO YOU ARE
153+AND IT DOES ME
154+NO GOOD AT ALL
155+  -- Jenny Holzer, Lustmord
156+%
157+Go where people sleep and see if they are safe
158+  -- Jenny Holzer
159+%
160+WHAT A SHOCK WHEN THEY TELL YOU
161+IT WON'T HURT AND YOU ALMOST
162+TURN INSIDE OUT WHEN THEY BEGIN.
163+  -- Jenny Holzer
164+%
165+MORE THAN ONCE I'VE AWAKENED WITH
166+TEARS RUNNING DOWN MY CHEEKS.
167+I HAVE HAD TO THINK WHETHER
168+I WAS CRYING OR WHETHER IT
169+IS INVOLUNTARY, LIKE DROOLING.
170+  -- Jenny Holzer
171+%
172+IT CAN BE STARTLING TO
173+SEE SOMEONES BREATH,
174+LET ALONE THE BREATHING OF A CROWD.
175+YOU USUALLY DONT BELIEVE THAT
176+PEOPLE EXTEND THAT FAR.
177+  -- Jenny Holzer
178+%
179+With you inside me comes the knowledge of my death.
180+  -- Jenny Holzer
181+%
182+Someone else's body is a place for your mind to go.
183+  -- Jenny Holzer
184+%
185+Hands on your breast can keep your heart beating.
186+  -- Jenny Holzer
187+%
188+Ideals are replaced by conventional goals at a certain age.
189+  -- Jenny Holzer
190+%
191+IT'S NO FUN WATCHING PEOPLE WOUND
192+THEMSELVES SO THAT THEY CAN HOLE UP,
193+NURSE THEMSELVES BACK TO HEALTH,
194+AND REPEAT THE CYCLE.
195+THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO.
196+  -- Jenny Holzer
197+%
198+An elite is inevitable.
199+  -- Jenny Holzer
200+%
201+Faithfulness is a social not a biological law.
202+  -- Jenny Holzer
203+%
204+WITH BLEEDING INSIDE THE HEAD
205+THERE IS A METALLIC TASTE AT
206+THE BACK OF THE THROAT.
207+  -- Jenny Holzer
208+%
209+WHEN YOU'RE TRYING SOMETHING NEW,
210+YOU'RE TORN BETWEEN
211+ANTICIPATING A DELIGHTFUL SURPRISE
212+AND THINKING YOU'RE A FOOL TO
213+IGNORE WHAT YOU KNOW YOU LIKE.
214+  -- Jenny Holzer
215+%
216+MANY DOGS RUN WILD IN THE CITY.
217+SOME ARE ABANDONED BY THEIR OWNERS
218+AND OTHERS ARE BORN TO LOST DOGS.
219+STRAYS HAVE A LIMITED LIFE EXPECTANCY
220+EVEN WHEN THEY BAND TOGETHER IN PACKS.
221+THEY ARE PREY TO DISEASE, PARASITES,
222+WEATHER AND AUTOMOBILES.
223+THEY TEND TO BE FRIGHTENED AND VICIOUS.
224+THEY ARE UNABLE TO PROTECT THEMSELVES
225+OR ANYONE ELSE.
226+  -- Jenny Holzer
227+%
228+SOME PEOPLE LIKE TO NIBBLE ON
229+THE INSIDES OF THEIR OWN CHEEKS.
230+IV'E SEEN AN OTHERWISE LOVELY GIRL
231+CONTORT HER FACE TO REACH A FAVORITE SPOT.
232+THERE ARE BIT LINES WHERE REPEATED NIPS
233+HAVE BUILT RIDGES OF SCAR TISSUE.
234+  -- Jenny Holzer
235+%
236+When you start liking pain things start to get interesting.
237+  -- Jenny Holzer
238+%
239+THE FOND OLD COUPLE WAS
240+DISAPPEARING TOGETHER THROUGH
241+SUCCESSIVE AMPUTATIONS.
242+  -- Jenny Holzer
243+%
244+IT'S NICE WHEN YOU DECIDE TO LIKE SOMEONE
245+AND, WITHOUT DECLARING YOURSELF,
246+DO WHAT'S POSSIBLE
247+TO FURTHER HIS HAPPINESS.
248+THIS CAN TAKE THE FORM OF GIFTS,
249+LOVELY FOOD, PUBLICITY, OR
250+ADVANCED WARNING.
251+  -- Jenny Holzer
252+%
253+HOW CONCISE THAT YOU CAN CRY FROM
254+AWFUL WOUNDS, DESERTION, HAPPINESS,
255+MEMORIES, HUMILIATION,
256+DISAPPOINTMENT OR GRANDEUR.
257+  -- Jenny Holzer
258+%
259+IT IS IN YOUR SELF-INTEREST /
260+TO FIND A WAY /
261+TO BE VERY TENDER
262+  -- Jenny Holzer
263+%
264+THERE'S NO REASON TO SLEEP
265+CURLED UP AND BENT.
266+IT'S NOT COMFORTABLE,
267+IT'S NOT GOOD FOR YOU, AND IT
268+DOESN'T PROTECT YOU FROM DANGER.
269+IF YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT AN ATTACK
270+YOU SHOULD STAY AWAKE
271+OR SLEEP LIGHTLY WITH
272+LIMBS UNFURLED FOR ACTION.
273+  -- Jenny Holzer
274+%
275+OBVIOUSLY YOU STRIKE OUT
276+AGAINST PEOPLE WITHIN RANGE.
277+IT'S CATHARTIC TO AFFECT
278+SOMEONE WHEN YOU'RE ANGRY.
279+ALTERNATIVELY, CHOOSE
280+ENEMIES IMPOSSIBLY FAR AWAY
281+SO YOU NEVER HAVE TO FIGHT.
282+  -- Jenny Holzer
283+%
284+HOW DO YOU FIND THE RIGHT POSITION
285+TO LIE DOWN WITH PEOPLE
286+OR EVEN ANIMALS?
287+OFTEN ONE OF THE PARTNERS IS
288+SMOTHERED OR CONTORTED.
289+WHEN DONE PROPERLY, THOUGH,
290+EVERYONE IS HAPPY.
291+  -- Jenny Holzer
292+%
293+IT CAN BE HELPFUL TO THINK OF
294+THEM EATING YOUR FAVORITE FOODS
295+AND OCCASIONALLY THROWING UP
296+AND GETTING BITS STUCK
297+IN THEIR NOSES.
298+  -- Jenny Holzer
299+%
300+IF THE HOUSE IS BITTER COLD,
301+ALL THE FLUIDS THEREIN,
302+IF NOT FROZEN, ARE STIFF AND SLOW.
303+  -- Jenny Holzer
304+%
305+THE IMPULSE IS TO SQUEEZE AND
306+FONDLE BABY WILD ANIMALS
307+BUT THEN THEY'D BE BROKEN AND
308+WHAT GOOD WOULD THEY BE?
309+  -- Jenny Holzer
310+%
311+FEW CAN IGNORE A BABY'S CRIES,
312+EVEN IF THE RESPONSE IS IRRITATION.
313+THIS IS ONE OF THE BUILT IN SAFEGUARDS
314+THAT IS SUPPOSED TO GUARANTEE
315+THE SURVIVAL OF THE RACE.
316+  -- Jenny Holzer
317+%
318+I SAW THEIR STUNNING BODIES GO SLACK
319+AND GET HAIR IN THE WRONG PLACES
320+AND I VOWED I WOULD NOT PERMIT
321+THAT TO HAPPEN TO ME.
322+  -- Jenny Holzer
323+%