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  • #1
    Christopher Hitchens
    “I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.”
    Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

  • #2
    Christopher Hitchens
    “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16”
    Christopher Hitchens

  • #3
    Christopher Hitchens
    The quality you most admire in a man? Courage moral and physical: 'anima'—the ability to think like a woman. Also a sense of the absurd.

    The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: “anima”—the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.”
    Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

  • #4
    George Eliot
    “But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
    George Eliot, Middlemarch

  • #5
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you --- the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars; because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or bloated, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #6
    Jack Gilbert
    “Failing and Flying"

    Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.
    It's the same when love comes to an end,
    or the marriage fails and people say
    they knew it was a mistake, that everybody
    said it would never work. That she was
    old enough to know better. But anything
    worth doing is worth doing badly.
    Like being there by that summer ocean
    on the other side of the island while
    love was fading out of her, the stars
    burning so extravagantly those nights that
    anyone could tell you they would never last.
    Every morning she was asleep in my bed
    like a visitation, the gentleness in her
    like antelope standing in the dawn mist.
    Each afternoon I watched her coming back
    through the hot stony field after swimming,
    the sea light behind her and the huge sky
    on the other side of that. Listened to her
    while we ate lunch. How can they say
    the marriage failed? Like the people who
    came back from Provence (when it was Provence)
    and said it was pretty but the food was greasy.
    I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell,
    but just coming to the end of his triumph.”
    Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems

  • #7
    Jack Gilbert
    “We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,
    but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have
    the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless
    furnace of this world. To make injustice the only
    measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.”
    Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven

  • #8
    Jack Gilbert
    The Abandoned Valley

    Can you understand being alone so long
    you would go out in the middle of the night
    and put a bucket into the well
    so you could feel something down there
    tug at the other end of the rope?”
    Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems

  • #9
    Jack Gilbert
    “Dreaming at the Ballet"

    The truth is, goddesses are lousy in bed.
    They will do anything it’s true.
    And the skin is beautifully cared for.
    But they have no sense of it. They are
    all manner and amazing technique.
    I lie with them thinking of your
    foolish excess, of you panting
    and sweating, and your eyes after.”
    Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems

  • #10
    Jack Gilbert
    “Naked Except for the Jewelry”

    “And,” she said, “you must talk no more
    about ecstasy. It is loneliness.”
    The woman wandered about picking up
    her shoes and silks. “You said you loved me,”
    the man said. “We tell lies,” she said,
    brushing her wonderful hair, naked except
    for the jewelry. “We try to believe.”
    “you were helpless with joy,” he said,
    “moaning and weeping.” “In the dream,” she said,
    “we pretend to ourselves that we are touching.
    The heart lies to itself because it must.”
    Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems

  • #11
    Clementine von Radics
    “I know
    you and I
    are not about poems or
    other sentimental bullshit
    but I have to tell you
    even the way
    you drink your coffee
    knocks me the fuck out.”
    Clementine von Radics

  • #12
    Clementine von Radics
    “You never need to apologize
    for how you chose to survive.”
    Clementine von Radics



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