| Now, what I would call a really swinging human being
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| Is a person who lives on two levels at once
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| He’s able to live on the level of being his ordinary ego, his everyday
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| personality
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| And play his role in life, and to observe all the rules, and so on
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| That go with that
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| But if he is only on that level
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| If he’s only playing that kind of thing, and thinks that’s all there is
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| It becomes a drag. |
| He starts being the kind of person who feels that he’s just
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| got to go on surviving
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| It’s terribly important to go on surviving; |
| to live
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| And he works at that
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| And his children learn the same attitude from him
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| And he says, «Well, I’ve got to survive because I’ve got all these children I
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| have to support,» and so on, and so forth
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| And then they take the same attitude, and they breed up children,
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| and they feel compulsive about supporting them, because they’ve got to go on
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| And so nobody really has any fun
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| It’s just… «Ungh! |
| Ungh! |
| Ungh! |
| Ungh!»
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| You’ve got to make this thing. |
| You see?
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| And you don’t have to
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| See, whenever I get somebody who comes to me and says, «I really can’t go on.
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| I have to commit suicide,»
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| I say, «Well, that’s entirely your right. |
| There’s really no reason why you
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| should go on, and if you want to commit suicide, do it.»
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| You can check out
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| Of course, this reduces anxiety; |
| when they feel free to commit suicide they
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| don’t really have to commit suicide so much
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| (Laughter)
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| You know, you can commit partial suicide
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| (Laughter) |