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“the old doctrine of ignoramus et ignorabimus—“we do not know and will not know.”
― Stanisław Lem, Solaris

“I found myself, as I walked into the open, bright, and cheerful street, in a romantically adventurous state of mind, which pleased me profoundly.”
― Robert Walser, The Walk

“Oh, it is heavenly and good and in simplicity most ancient to walk on foot, provided of course one’s shoes or boots are in order.”
― Robert Walser, The Walk

“In the sweet light of love I realized, or believed I realized, that perhaps the inward self is the only self which really exists.”
― Robert Walser, The Walk

“Being with her was like being backstage during an amateurish, ridiculous play.”
― Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust

“I don’t over-eat myself and I don’t over-fuck myself.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Oh, intellectually I believe in having a good heart, a chirpy penis, a lively intelligence, and the courage to say “shit!” in front of a lady.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“half-respected conventions spread insecurity and incoherence of behavior rather than freedom and frankness.”
― Italo Calvino, Mr. Palomar

“So, I am relegating the bosom again to the semidarkness where centuries of sexo-maniacal puritanism and of desire considered sin have kept it. . . .”
― Italo Calvino, Mr. Palomar

“At one point in the third act, Sandy Dennis uttered the line "It's been a terrible evening." An audience member yelled back, "It certainly has.”
― David Sheward, Rage and Glory: The Volatile Life and Career of George C. Scott

“How she hated words, always coming between her and life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the life-sap out of living things.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“She waited patiently till she could go upstairs and think her own thoughts.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“From my own flaw I had created a future good.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

“Do you think one can only care once?’ she asked. ‘Or never. Most women never care, never begin to. They don’t know what it means. Nor men either. But when I see a woman as cares, my heart stands still for her.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“The refinements of passion, the extravagances of sensuality! And necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt out the heaviest ore of the body into purity. With the fire of sheer sensuality.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“We fucked a flame into being. Even the flowers are fucked into being between the sun and the earth.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“I had fallen into the temptation of seeing, the temptation of knowing and feeling.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

“Since the state of grace exists permanently: we are always saved. All the world is in a state of grace.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

“Americans have dissipated their radical energy in an orgy of stone breaking.”
― Nathanael West, MISS LONELYHEARTS

“Man has a tropism for order. Keys in one pocket, change in another.”
― Nathanael West, MISS LONELYHEARTS