- Encouragement
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Glowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
- Applause
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- Nov 07, 2020
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
- Breath
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
- Few Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
- Blind
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.
- Either
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.
- Haven
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- Nov 07, 2020