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"The woman turns away; one wing blackens like an onyx gem while the other glows white like a bright spotlight. She flies into the sky, leaving the crowd staring in astonishment. Angels fly away in two directions. Half make a black storm of moving, twisting shapes. The other half forms a white-as-snow moving cloud. The ranks are divided."

"She's beauty and she's the beast, rolled into one."

"And yet sometimes it seems to me I am there, among the incriminated scenes, tottering under the attributes peculiar to the lords of creation ... Yes, more than once I almost took myself for the other, all but suffered after his fashion, the space of an instant."

"We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side."

"The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?"

"The heart pointed to the brain and said with great disdain, "Those who live their lives in here live the lives most full of fear."

"Only in duality consciousness we witness this-that thing. In reality, a unity consciousness runs as the very soul of every little thing."

"I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other."
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"We have a few old mouth-to-mouth tales; we exhume from old trunks and boxes and drawers letters without salutation or signature, in which men and women who once lived and breathed are now merely initials or nicknames out of some now incomprehensible affection which sound to us like Sanskrit or Chocktaw; we see dimly people, the people in whose living blood and seed we ourselves lay dormant and waiting, in this shadowy attenuation of time possessing now heroic proportions, performing their acts of simple passion and simple violence, impervious to time and inexplicable."


"Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed."


"Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is."


"It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence."


"Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else."


"Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people."


"Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid."


"Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fighting and apparently inescapable----And so why should not their religion drive them to crucifixion of themselves and one another? he thinks."
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