"Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart."

-- Matthew Sharpe

#Heart Quotes #Ice Quotes #Splinters Quotes

“You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.”
“If my work is pornography, so what? I don't have any moral compunction about pornography. Any feelings I have about it are purely stylistic... I don't see why it should be excluded as a serious subject.”
“To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!”
“To-night when the full-bellied moon swallows the stars. Grant that I know.”
“History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.”

Source : Holbrook Jackson (1932). “The Fear of Books”, p.34, University of Illinois Press
“Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.”
“I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything....”
“I did it to show the world that Jews have guts,”

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