"In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's truth or of light love's art, Only the song of a secret bird."

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Source : Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015). “Selected Verse”, p.291, Carcanet

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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“Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.”
“... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!”
“The first step in understanding the sex industry is to understand the customers, the johns. ... These men have already violated moral standards - and they know it. Talking about right and wrong aren't compelling arguments for them. They are criminals who have chosen to break the law and hurt people, many of them young people.”
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“my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom.”
“Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: " I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.”
“Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.”

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