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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

Erica Jong

People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Always Art End Interest People Reflect Sexuality Story Wn
Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Flesh Learn Lesson Merely On Pass
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Advice Answer Become Get Good Happy Married Philosopher Socrates Wife Wish
Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Find Going Later Life Often Own Poem Predict Write
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Believe Element Function Our Unhappiness
And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Anything Even More Risk Trouble
The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Been Country Daughter Feminist Greatest Lover Mary People Person
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Being Every Excuse Judge Look Procrastinate Scare
I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Able Cry Ever Experience Mist Must Stand Think Use Wonder
The soul is awakened through service.
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Awakened Service Soul Through
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Crack Cynical Everything Love People Something Subsesive Tell Want
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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City Liquid Migrate Mirror Once Soul Stone
If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Activities Body Creativity Dictator Knowledge Lead Often Own Seen Sex
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Acquire Always Courage Fear Most Taste Thing
If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Anything Even Going Know More Must Night Right Risk Time
The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
ERICA JONG

Being Between Body Create Different Do Drive Everything Human Little Men Office Only Simultaneously Tractor Women Work

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