The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace,
The prurient ape's defiling touch:
And do you like the human race?
No, not much.
Aldous Huxley
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remind me who I am.
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instead their feet touch and so do their arms
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You have no right ...
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I give you the images I know.
Lie still with me and watch.
W...
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Sleep until you waken
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If I...
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i lay down
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at the end of the day all this...
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Into the bluest sea the sky is drowned
T...
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F...
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Instead,
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you have to
get to the root
of the wound
and kiss it all the way up
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No, that i...
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You are not just white,
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You are no...
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Here the word's faking
As there's no time for lies.
Kiss a...
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Do you see
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Look.
Do you sense
that...
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and I invented you
and that's why we don't
get along
on this...
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like you have no
secrets
like you’ve
never been
left
nev...
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must reach
into the clouds
and touch
the beauty
of madness.
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If you meet your father, kill yo...
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If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha.
If you meet your father, kill yo...
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Te...
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She nods.
I kiss her on the forehead. "...
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Don't you dare touch me.
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a story beh...
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We listen to it, and d...
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I want to share you
with yourself.
I know you do not insist
KAMAND KOJOURI The Type
Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else. -Richard Siken SARAH KAY You are made
out of comets
and stars.
Do not surround
yourself with those<...
NOOR SHIRAZIE That time
I thought I could not
go any closer to grief
without dying
I wen...
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Before you were born,
And were still too tiny for
The h...
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stitched upon my face
years and years of wi...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. An...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can neve...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distres...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are no...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing w...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the star...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psy...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
ALDOUS HUXLEY I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is on...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance
ALDOUS HUXLEY The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of o...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Death
Its the only thing we havent succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it cla...
ALDOUS HUXLEY At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva...
ALDOUS HUXLEY An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v...
ALDOUS HUXLEY So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol....
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
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