How can one say, 'No, this isn't a part of life,' since it always is? The contaminant of sex, the redeeming corruption that de-idealizes the species and keeps us everlastingly mindful of the matter we are.
You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.
There are no uncontaminated angels
For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.
When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.