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“Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.”
“Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes, and when again they open, the sun will rise.”
“Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.”
Source : Augusta Jane Evans (1867). “St. Elmo: A Novel”, p.408
“I try not to sleep with every girl I see, but it's hard!”
“The messenger is not as important as the message.”
“When I sleep to much I don't score. That's the reason I like to go out a lot.”
Source : Veja Magazine; 1895 Edition, March 9, 2005.
“In certain tantric rituals the candidate is first beaten by his guru, hashish forced down him, and he is taken at midnight to a dark cemetery for sacred sexual intercourse. Thus he achieves union with his god.”
“The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is organized in spheres joyful or threatening about the central pulse of himself, the dreamer whose puns probe ancient fetid shafts and tunnels of truth all act in the same special relevance to the word, or whatever it is the word is there, buffering, to protect us from. The act of metaphor than was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were: inside, safe or outside, lost.”
Charles Darwin Naturalist
L. Sprague de Camp Writer
Walter de La Mare Poet
