In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
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To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them to dare, to seek, to invent it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized.
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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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