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funny kind of love; desire filtered through wonder and disgust.
“A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.”
― Velocity
― Velocity
“The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.”
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“Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.”
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“The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace,
The prurient ape's defiling touch:
And do you like the human race?
No, not much.”
― Ape and Essence
The prurient ape's defiling touch:
And do you like the human race?
No, not much.”
― Ape and Essence
“people diminish me;
the longer I sit and listen to them
the more empty I feel but I don't get
the idea that they feel empty, I feel
that they enjoy the sound from their
mouths.”
― Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems
the longer I sit and listen to them
the more empty I feel but I don't get
the idea that they feel empty, I feel
that they enjoy the sound from their
mouths.”
― Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems
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