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To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.

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Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

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To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it…

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In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love.

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No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.

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Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another intel…

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There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of immortality and have p…

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Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.

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The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

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The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

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