From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
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When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept -- the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.John Updike
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.
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For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.
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The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
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You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.
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What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders
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