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“Loving confers no rights”
― The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
― The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
“- Religious imagery is partly aesthetic,' said Monty. 'It's worked on. But it's complice in the same sort of way.'
- You mean?
- It's all to do with the hygiene of the ego. A successful religion is a recipe for an innocent-feeling fantasy life and happy sex.
- Even if one's a hermit or an ascetic on a pillar?
- Especially if one's a hermit or an ascetic on a pillar.”
― The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
- You mean?
- It's all to do with the hygiene of the ego. A successful religion is a recipe for an innocent-feeling fantasy life and happy sex.
- Even if one's a hermit or an ascetic on a pillar?
- Especially if one's a hermit or an ascetic on a pillar.”
― The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
“انطلاقا من الآن، لنأذهب إلا لمشاهدة أفلام الحب، مثلما يقول الأشخاص الكبار، أفلام يُقبّل فيها الناس بعضهم، وفيها كل النّاس يحبّون بعضهم البعض. أنا الذي لم أكن أصلح إلا للضرب، سأشاهد عل الأقّل الآخرين يحبّون بعضهم بعضاً.”
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“اجتمعت فيك الثلاث: ثائر و عاشق و شاعر”
― الشوك والقرنفل
― الشوك والقرنفل
“Intense mutual erotic love that involves with the flesh all the refined sexual beings of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world. This love presents itself as such a dizzily lofty value that even to speak of 'enjoying' it seems a sacrilege. It is something to be undergone upon one's knees. And where it exists it cannot but shed a blazing light of justification upon its own scene, a light which can leave the rest of the world dark indeed.”
― The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
― The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
On Reading Graphic Novels
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Glimmer’s 2024 Year in Books
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