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the confluent smallpox - invented perhaps as the cruellest remedy for human vanity. (Lawrence Durrell)
He had at last discovered that love had no pith in it, and that the projection of one own's feelings upon the images of a beloved was in the long run, an act of self-mutilation. View quote
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I return link by link along the iron chains of memory to the city which we inhabited so briefly together:the city which used us as its flora-precipitated in us conflicts which were hers and which we mistook for our own:beloved Alexandria! View quote
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The Copts - the only branch of the Christian Church which was thoroughly integrated into the Orient! But then your good Bishop of Salisbury openly said he considered these oriental Christians as worse than infidels, and your Crusaders massacred them joyfully. View quote
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Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass. View quote
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The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you... View quote
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There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it. View quote
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Our inventions mirror our secret wishes. View quote
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Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass. View quote
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For the body is only the outer periphery of the spirit, its solid part. View quote
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Love is poetry plus biology. (Lawrence Durrell)
I imagine, therefore I belong and am free. View quote
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I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair: deep suspiring eyes in which one's glances sink because they are nervous, curious, turned to sexual curiosity. View quote
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You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect. View quote
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Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. View quote
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They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures-and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well. View quote
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