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I honor shit for saying: We go on.

—Maxine Kumin

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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have, it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

—D. H. Lawrence

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If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.

—Walt Whitman

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Passionate love is not peculiar to the human species, for it penetrates through all existing things — celestial, elemental, vegetable, and mineral.

—Avicenna

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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

—Oscar Wilde

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We have attempted to separate the spiritual and the erotic, thereby reducing the spiritual to a world of flattened affect, a world of the ascetic who aspires to feel nothing.

—Audre Lorde

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Fear has a smell, as love does.

—Margaret Atwood

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We have so many words for states of mind, and so few for the states of the body.

—Jeanne Moreau

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Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.

—Anna Quindlen in Every Last One

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What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

—Jacques Lacan

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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

—A.R. Ammons

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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

—Ernest Haskins

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A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment.

—Willis Player

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A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.

—William James

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You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

—James Agee

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