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Celibate
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at no time in my life have I been a person to hold myself polluted by the touch or approach of any creature that wore a human shape: on the contrary, from my very earliest youth it has been my pride to converse familiarly, more Socratico, with all human beings, man, woman, and child, that chance might fling my way; a practice …. which becomes a man who would be a philosopher.
”
― Confessions of an English Opium Eater
― Confessions of an English Opium Eater
“
I fell like a celibate hustler
A stained & sullied spirit...
Halfway between freaky and holy
”
― The Bedevilment of Bertie Lunn
― The Bedevilment of Bertie Lunn
