Nothing is true, everything is permitted. ✨ William S. Burroughs (2007…

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Nothing is true, everything is permitted. ✨ William S. Burroughs (2007). Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader, p.435, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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