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/ page 437 of 1205 /I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
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But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
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Only in a novel are all things given full play.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers -- but to track it home.
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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
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There's a stake in your fat black heart And the villagers never liked you....
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like the cat I have nine times to die. This is Number Three. What a trash To annihilate each decade.
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The dead bell, The dead bell. Somebody's done for.
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Naked as paper to start But in twenty-five years she'll be silver, In fifty, gold.
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I am no source of honey So why should they turn on me?...
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the woman in the ambulance Whose red heart blooms through her coat so astoundingly—
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The blood blooms clean In you, ruby. The pain You wake to is not yours.
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White Godiva, I unpeel— Dead hands, dead stringencies.
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I was ten when they buried you. At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you.
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