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Perhaps they do it wrong, do it brainlessly, one running in one direction and one in another, each with one notion in his beak, which he considers the only one in the world, each of them thinking himself frightfully clever, and all of them together believing that the age is condemned to sterility. But perhaps it's the other way round, and each one of them is stupid but all of them together are fertile?
— Jun 10, 2011 03:21PM
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Jimmy
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and never had it been so clear to him as in the instant when he followed her to what an extent the impassioned entry into another body is a continuation of the child's liking for secret, even vicious hiding-places.
— Jun 25, 2011 04:29AM
Jimmy
is on page 375 of 454
and through the darkness the aerial storm of love came raging like a gale. It was with a thud that it set the lovers back on firm ground again, when, vanishing through the walls, it let them go. And now the darkness lay between them like a lump of coal with which the sinners had blackened themselves.
— Jun 23, 2011 08:02PM
Jimmy
is on page 359 of 454
One does of course press the wine from the grapes. But how much more beautiful than a pool of wine could ever be is the vineyard on the hillside, with its indigestible crude earth and its endless rows of shining stakes made of dead wood!
— Jun 23, 2011 06:34AM
Jimmy
is on page 280 of 454
Things that lay far back in the past and things quite fresh and new were no longer kept artificially apart; but when it was all there at once, then what they called 'at different times' was no longer entwined with it like a scarlet thread that one has to tie round a twin baby's neck because one can't tell one from the other.
— Jun 15, 2011 11:27AM
Jimmy
is on page 180 of 454
in short, even on days when one did nothing in particular, there were so many things one must avoid doing that one had the feeling of being very active indeed.
— May 25, 2011 12:50PM
Jimmy
is on page 140 of 454
Hardly anyone still _reads_ nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.
— May 20, 2011 01:34PM
Jimmy
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that all roads to the mind start from the soul but that none of them leads back again!
— May 16, 2011 11:12AM
