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“Sex is the most important sort of adult play. If you can't relax here you never will”
Source : Alex Comfort (1986). “The Joy of Sex”, Pocket
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“On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.”
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“Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth's inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left.”
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“Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals.”
Source : Arlene J. Chai (2010). “The Last Time I Saw Mother”, p.149, Ballantine Books
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“Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.”
Source : David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset.”
Source : 'Livre sans nom: Twelve Reflections' (privately printed 1934) no. 12
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“Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?”
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“The world can absorb only doses of truth... too much would kill it.”