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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

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Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.

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Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit.

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I saw to the south a man walking. He was breaking ground in perfect silence. He wore a harness and pulled a plow. His feet trod his figure's blue shad...more

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When we lose our innocence - when we start feeling the weight of the atmosphere and learn that there's death in the pot - we take leave of our sense.

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In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them farther ...more

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Do women in love feel as men do? Do men love as women love? His virgin bride shared her pipe-frame bed all smiles and laughter. When they were intimat...more

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Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written something. She must...more

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Lou asked point-blank, Can love last? (Rural people get to philosophizing, and will say anything.)—Oh, darling! No, not that heart-thumping passion. G...more

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The question was not death; living things die. It was love. Not that we died, but that we cared wildly, then deeply, for one person out of billions. W...more