“It is interesting to note that the "sexual revolution" was sometimes portrayed as a communal utopia, whereas in fact it was simply another stage in the historical rise of individualism. As the lovely word "household" suggests, the couple and the family would be the last bastion of primitive communism in liberal society. The sexual revolution was to destroy these intermediary communities, the last to separate the individual from the market. The destruction continues to this day.”
― The Elementary Particles
― The Elementary Particles
“I could carve a better man out of a banana.”
― Cat’s Cradle
― Cat’s Cradle
“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“By the way, Doc Edwards said. How's that book coming along?
Oh, it's coming along.
Fine. What's it about?
Just what I'm writing down: one word after another.
Good.”
― In Watermelon Sugar
Oh, it's coming along.
Fine. What's it about?
Just what I'm writing down: one word after another.
Good.”
― In Watermelon Sugar
“Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.”
― Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade
― Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade
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