"And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite."

-- Oscar Wilde

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“There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds; a snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.”
“Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.”
“Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself. They do not do this because it sounds edifying, but because this is the way that human nature seems to work. We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.”
“When you part your lips that way, I want you night and day. When you squeeze my balls so tight, I wanna blow my load with all my might.”
“I need to take a break from this life as a human for 45 minutes and go experience a little bit of immortality.”

Source : Interview with Elizabeth Gips, www.tripzine.com. May 1, 2001.
“The highest civilizations -- the longest to last and I believe the most successful in human terms -- are those which have come the closest to achieving real understanding and mutual appreciation between men and women.”
“Everyone should be able to go to a concert and enjoy music, and not feel like they're going to be harassed. That's how I see punk music.”
“There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.”

Source : Cecil Day Lewis (1992). “The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis”, p.319, Stanford University Press

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