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“If you were M. Pujol, Madeleine says, I would reach out my hand to you. Like this.
If you were M. Pujol, Adrien says, I would press my mouth against your pulse. Like this.
If you were he, she says, I would cup your chin in my fingers.
If you were he, he says, I would take those fingers into my mouth.
Then my mouth would envy my fingers, she says.
Then your mouth must usurp your fingers, he says.
And then, she says, I would do this.”
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If you were M. Pujol, Adrien says, I would press my mouth against your pulse. Like this.
If you were he, she says, I would cup your chin in my fingers.
If you were he, he says, I would take those fingers into my mouth.
Then my mouth would envy my fingers, she says.
Then your mouth must usurp your fingers, he says.
And then, she says, I would do this.”
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“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
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“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
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“A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets make a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”
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