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| 25 | 783 | See View more quotes about life">life as it is, directly, in its beauty, if only for a sudden, startling moment, perhaps as men might have seen it before language, before the subtle, altering, translucent barriers of words, the invisible wall that so liberates, but yet confines and shapes, was interposed between the mind and existence, not through the distortive prisms of the sluggish, fearful and defective. |
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| 25 | 780 | I like it. |
| 25 | 781 | It makes me happy. |
| 25 | 782 | What is wrong with that? Put aside the mediocrity's armament of vengeful semantics. |
| 25 | 783 | See life as it is, directly, in its beauty, if only for a sudden, startling moment, perhaps as men might have seen it before language, before the subtle, altering, translucent barriers of words, the invisible wall that so liberates, but yet confines and shapes, was interposed between the mind and existence, not through the distortive prisms of the sluggish, fearful and defective. |
| 25 | 784 | Would that there could be a new language, or new words, a lexicon of light that would allow us to see the world as it might be seen, in its innocence, profundity and glory". |
| 25 | 785 | How humiliating this is, she thought. |
| 25 | 786 | How shamed you should be, Ellen! But you tramp, you slut, you tart, you are not! How terrible you are! There was no mistaking the interest of the buyers. |