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"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."
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"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."
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"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."
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"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."
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"The body is not a reliable friend."
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"Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem."
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"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."
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"What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure."
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"One doesn't even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn't think ofus, that'sfine."
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"....I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia-by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best. (tr Jowett)"
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"Having sex is like bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand."
Relationship
"I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics."
Relationship
"Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be."
Writing
"You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans."
Humor
"Ninety percent of living is just showing up."
Life
"Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens."
Philosophical
"One must have one's delusions to live. If you look at life too honestly and clearly, life becomes unbearable because it's a pretty grim enterprise, you will admit."
Philosophy
"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown."
People
"Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness."
Education
"If I could only see one miracle just one miracle. Like a burning bush or the seas part or my uncle Sasha pick up a check."
Faith
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