Plato says that as one learns to love, the image of any specific beloved can be left behind for knowledge of the Good.
But where corpses were buried secretly, there the grass grows thick; such signs (and there are ever so many others!) may be read by those to whom truth is more important than beauty.
The times are new, but the informers are old.
Thus the protagonist of this Dream of mine is ooze, here and forever call'd
Are you a censor? Do you tell people not to say girl? Shame on you! If nothing offends you, you’re a saint or you’re psychotic. If a few things offend you, deal with them--fairly. If you’re often offe...
For propaganda, of course. It’s all in your own book. How can we persuade others to be good, without evil we can point to?
Expressiveness in others enriched Mrs. Singer's confidence in her own interpretations, possibly because a certain fear that she had not accomplished anything in her life left her all the more desirous...
We each must fulfill our own obligation.
As a child he had gone out for Halloween as a mummy, a vampire, a blue-and-green-swolen drowned boy, all kinds of sufferings and mutilations and perversions represented by his costumes; and looking ar...
I know it’s ridiculous, but I sometimes feel that my love for her is the only thing that’s genuine about me.
Who dies best, the soldier who falls for your sake, or the fly in my whiskey-glass? The happy agony of the fly is his reward for an adventurous dive in no cause but his own. Gorged and crazed, he touc...
Oh, ants, my sisters, good old honeydew-seekers! From close up you are sticky and shiny and gristly; and your nymphs have parasitic red mites stuck to them. You are too intent upon your chewing and ga...
The reformed addict who feels the craving almost believes in it, then merely smiles; that
What do you get when you cross a nymphomaniac with a kleptomaniac? A rapist, said Tyler.
He had always longed to let himself go, sinking and spinning into something greater than himself; and his mind quite naturally worked to consider every facet of every question; so when he was with Coc...
It is the occupation of politicians to deny this ubiquity, nay, universality of corroded hearts, to discount the barren laboriousness of all paths. Reduce corporate taxes, they say, or redistribute th...
I’ve never shot a civilian except when under orders.
We Communists say, if it has no practically measurable effect, it's not people's art!
The shortest man, codenamed RIMSKY, said to me that freedom means understanding our place within the laws of history; we are more free when we acknowledge our submission to the law of gravity than whe...
Do you want to know what happiness is? Happiness is the absence of unpleasant information.
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