Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
("Lady Chatterley's Lover")
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We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America -- as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.
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