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 | "I"d wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the
industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake." | |
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Found in the topic Industry.
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| "To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says." | |
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Found in the topic Puritanism.
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| "How beastly the bourgeois is Especially the male of the
species." | |
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Found in the topic Classes.
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| "The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and make their
own natural brown bread, ah, it is amazing how fresh and sweet and clean
their loaf seems, so perfumed, as home-made bread used all to be before
the war." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Never trust the artist. Trust the tale." | |
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Found in the topic Writing.
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| "The Marriage appears to us more real than the land." | |
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Found in the topic Marriage.
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| "Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the
intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and
beauty, is intuition." | |
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Found in the topic Beauty.
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| "How the horse dominated the mind of the early races, especially of
the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back
in our dark soul the horse prances.... The horse, the horse! The symbol of
surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man." | |
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Found in the topic Horse.
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| "I never saw a wild thing Sorry for itself." | |
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Found in the topic Animals.
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| "If a woman hasn"t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she is a dry
stick as a rule." | |
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Found in the topic Woe.
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| "For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to
be most vividly, most perfectly alive." | |
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Found in the topic Flower.
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| "Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved." | |
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Found in the topic Save.
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| "I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of
regrets." | |
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Found in the topic Night.
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| "But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of
repetitions." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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| "The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything.
Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences.... The world
doesn"t fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can"t
pigeon-hole a real new experience." | |
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Found in the topic Experience.
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