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A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance. I once found a small boy masturbating in the presence of the Victorian steel-engraving in a family Bible.

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I was cured all right.

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Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

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Hitler was a teetotalitarian.

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I was always on my oddy knocky.

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But what I do I do because I like to do.

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What's it going to be then, eh?

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All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

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To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

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