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I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line of words I write.

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What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one musn't ...more

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An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet or a soap-works. Partnership was a voluntarily con...more

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While we read a novel, we are insane - bonkers.

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The light is the left hand of darkness

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How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks,...more

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The king was pregnant.

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Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

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They have nothing to give. They have no power of making. All their power is to darken and destroy. They cannot leave this place; they are this place; ...more