But my mother was in love and she had known about life for a long time, with her two bastard girls like two earrings; and she knew... that most often one must pull out one's entrails and fill one's stomach with straw if one wants to have a little piece of the sun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I... Stand in the plague of custom and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother? Why bastard? Wherefore base? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With base? With baseness? Bastardy? Base, base? Who in the lusty stealth of nature take More composition and fierce quality Than doth within a dull, stale, tired bed Go to th' creating a whole tribe of fops Got 'tween asleep and wake?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That same wicked bastard of Venus that was begot of thought, conceived of spleen, and born of madness, that blind... rascally boy that abuses every one's eyes because his own are out, let him be judge how deep I am in love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God: "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest." Moses: "If your presence will not go, do not carry us up from ...here. For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people, unless you go with us?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If prophets or those who divine by dreams appear among you and promise you omens or portents, and the omens or the portents declar...ed by them take place, and they say, "Let us follow other gods" (whom you have not known) "and let us serve them," you must not heed the words of those prophets or those who divine by dreams; for the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you indeed love the LORD your God with all your heart and soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this entire law that I am setting before you today? But take ca...re and watch yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children's children...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »