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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

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From nature he had too big soul to be an usual seducer. He desired something totally arbitrary, a greeting for example, and would accept no more at any price, because that was the most beautiful thing about the other person.

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I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity.
I like sincerity. I lack sincerity. These are not opinions, these are not words of wisdom, this is a disclaimer, a disclaimer for my lack of education, for my loss of inspiration, for my unnerving quest for affectionand my perfunctory shamefulness towards many who are of my relative age. It's not even a poem. it's a big pile of shit like me.

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The way to be anticultural and having a mass commercial success is saying and doing radical things in a conservative way. As McLuhan did: writing a book to say that books are obsolete.

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So he shall never know how I love him; and that not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.

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Part of that Power, not understood,
Which always wills the Bad, and always works the Good.

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"We did it, we bashed them, wee Potter's the One, and Voldy's gone moudly, so now let's have fun!

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And the incredible thing is that I've seen how you run away without moving from your place, taking advantage of that temporary distraction in order to disappear.

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But I was still free, meaning that I was free to be mistaken.

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Although within me you exist in a way that terrifies me.