What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.Angela Carter
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.
Angela Carter
Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
Angela Carter
What a joy it is to dance and sing!
Angela Carter
The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder.
Angela Carter
If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?
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