"Genuine bravery for a writer... It is about calmly speaking the truth when everyone else is silenced, when the truth cannot be expressed. It is about speaking out with a different voice, risking the wrath of the state and offending everyone, for the sake of the truth, and the writer's conscience."

-- Murong Xuecun

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“The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.”
“Satan knows your name but he calls you by your sin.”
“Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.”
“If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.”
“I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.”
“They saw their injured country's woe.”

Source : Philip Freneau (1963). “The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)”, p.521, Library of Alexandria
“I love to sing, but it's just not fun anymore.”
“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music,”

Source : Studies in the History of the Renaissance "The School of Giorgione" (1873)

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