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By all accounts, sex is a personally encoded communique, continually reinvented. run for office? no. i've slept with too many women, i've done too many drugs, and i've been to too many parties..
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. action is eloquence. talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. perhaps you too have met in the cause of your life women of that sort, who are self-luminous and shine in the dark, who are phosphorescent, like touchwood. i often wonder: suppose we could begin life over again, knowing what we were doing? suppose we could use one life, already ended, as sort of a rough draft for another? i think that every one of us would try, more than anything else, not to repeat himself, at the very least he would rearrange his manner of life, he would make sure of rooms like these, with flowers and light... a man can no more diminish god's glory by refusing to worship him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. the realization that he was utterly powerless was like the blow of a sledgehammer, yet it was curiously as well. no one was forcing him into a decision. they say that god is everywhere, and yet we always think of him as somewhat of a recluse. if you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want and all that is left is a compromise. the form of government most suitable to the artist is no government at all. in memory, everything seems to happen to music. you can't help respecting anybody who can spell tuesday, even if he doesn't spell it right. ...love is not love / which alters when it alteration finds, / or bends with the remover to remove: / o no! it is an ever-fixed mark / that looks on tempests and is never shaken....
Hope has two beautiful daughters: their names are anger and courage. anger that things are the way they are. courage to make them the way they should be. now, what was tiring had disappeared and only the beauty remained. the writer should never be ashamed of staring. there is nothing that does not require his attention. what is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from the biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult to come by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become not merely unspoken but unspeakable.... all silence has a meaning. every now and then, everybody is entitled to too much perfection. it is not good for all our wishes to be fulfilled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest. i love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. i have the sense to recognize / that i don't know how to let you go.
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. action is eloquence. talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. perhaps you too have met in the cause of your life women of that sort, who are self-luminous and shine in the dark, who are phosphorescent, like touchwood. i often wonder: suppose we could begin life over again, knowing what we were doing? suppose we could use one life, already ended, as sort of a rough draft for another? i think that every one of us would try, more than anything else, not to repeat himself, at the very least he would rearrange his manner of life, he would make sure of rooms like these, with flowers and light... a man can no more diminish god's glory by refusing to worship him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. the realization that he was utterly powerless was like the blow of a sledgehammer, yet it was curiously as well. no one was forcing him into a decision. they say that god is everywhere, and yet we always think of him as somewhat of a recluse. if you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want and all that is left is a compromise. the form of government most suitable to the artist is no government at all. in memory, everything seems to happen to music. you can't help respecting anybody who can spell tuesday, even if he doesn't spell it right. ...love is not love / which alters when it alteration finds, / or bends with the remover to remove: / o no! it is an ever-fixed mark / that looks on tempests and is never shaken....
Hope has two beautiful daughters: their names are anger and courage. anger that things are the way they are. courage to make them the way they should be. now, what was tiring had disappeared and only the beauty remained. the writer should never be ashamed of staring. there is nothing that does not require his attention. what is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from the biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult to come by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become not merely unspoken but unspeakable.... all silence has a meaning. every now and then, everybody is entitled to too much perfection. it is not good for all our wishes to be fulfilled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest. i love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. i have the sense to recognize / that i don't know how to let you go.