Posted by: Silvia Menato
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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.
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.
Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps
find wisdom.
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.
Part of that Power, not understood,
Which always wills the Bad, and always works the Good.
"We did it, we bashed them, wee Potter's the One, and Voldy's gone moudly, so now let's have fun!
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.
But I was still free, meaning that I was free to be mistaken.
Although within me you exist in a way that terrifies me.