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It was only at that moment that something began to dawn on me – something on which the poets generally have little to say – that in fact the outcasts of society, the ugly, the faded, the disfigured, the rejected and shunned, experience their desires with a far fiercer, more dangerous craving than the more healthy and fortunate among us; that they love with a dark, fanatical, pernicious love, and no passion on earth looms more greedily, more desperately, than the hopeless and desolate longing of those of God’s stepchildren who feel that their existence on this earth can be justified by nothing ...more
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