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Weed, moss-weed,
root tangled in sand,
sea-iris, brittle flower.
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that that love mus ...
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing ...
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one pers ...
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth--well, it's like brown--it's not in the spectrum.... Truth is sui generis.
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
He ... was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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