Love will remain, sex will be gone, and then love has a purity and a beauty and a sacredness of its own.
"Our sheer capacity for feeling got to be so unwieldy that we staggered under it, like Atlas with the weight of the world." I sigh, and the freshness of the air derails me. How long will it take, I wonder, for me to get used to it again? My chest aches, and maybe it's the unfamiliar purity of the air, but maybe not. "The thing about Shakespeare is, he's so eloquent ... He speaks the unspeakable. He turns grief and triumph and rapture and rage into words, into something we can understand. He renders the whole mystery of humanity comprehensible." I stop. Shrug. "You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough."
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"...looks out of the heart
burning with purity -
for the burden of life
is love,
but we carry the weight
wearily,
and so must rest
in the arms of love
at last,
must rest in the arms
of love."
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I talk about the purity of that kind of crazy love. He tells me that he will never see the film.
A man’s weakness and strength, purity and impurity, are his own and not another man’s. They are brought about by himself and not by another; and they can only be altered by himself, never by another.
Fire tests the purity of silver and gold, but a person is tested by being praised.
Prov. 27:21
Whenever politicians start talking in mystical terms, beware. They might be trying to disguise and excuse real suffering by wrapping it up in big incomprehensible words. Be particularly careful about the following four words: sacrifice, eternity, purity, redemption. If you hear any of these, sound the alarm. And if you happen to live in a country whose leader routinely says things like 'Their sacrifice will redeem the purity of our eternal nation' know that you are in deep trouble.
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In the more than sixty years that separate the early Verne from the founding of Amazing Stories, it is Wells who stands head and shoulders above all other writers for the purity and totality of his commitment to science.
Spirit simply had no place at all in Wells’s work. Neither traditional religion nor the rational soul meant anything to him. If he wrote occasional fantasy stories, they were material fantasies like his satiric story of an angel shot out of the sky by a vicar with a shotgun.
Eğer okuma eylemine toptan satın alma muamelesi yaparsak, eleştirel bir okuma mümkün olamaz. Onlarca kitap okumuş olmakla övünmenin ne manası var? Gerçek okuma, kendini bana açan ve benim de kendimi verdiğim metinle kurulan bir tür ilişkidir ve metnin özünü kavramadan özne olma sürecini yaşayamam. Okuduğum metin sadece yazarının bir ürünüymüş gibi, metnin aklının esiri olmamalıyım. Bu türden bir okuma, gerçek okumanın çarpıtılmış halidir ve düşünmekle veya doğru eğitimle de ilgisi yoktur.
Aslında, "doğru" düşünebilen kişi, zaman zaman düşündükleri yanlış bile olsa, "doğru" düşünebilmeyi öğretebilecek tek kişidir. Çünkü doğru düşünebilmenin şartlarından biri, insanın, bildiğini sandığı şeylerden çok emin olmamayı başarabilmesidir. Püritenlikten tümüyle farklı bir şey olan etik saflık [purity] ihtiyacı (başka bir ifadeyle güzellik yaratan bir etik saflık) göz önüne alındığında, doğru düşünme, kibirli bir hadsizlikle bir arada bulunamaz.
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That’s what the sea had done to them, too. It had annihilated them without for a second relinquishing its formidable purity, those crests of glory that the water raised with a perseverance completely unconcerned with humankind. It was definitely a higher power. Once again, Amador was sure that this was God’s embrace and that Coronado had died in his terrible bosom.
Nor was her fate exceptional: moral purity may
have been the standard in public life, but the reality was often quite different. Venereal diseases were a fact of life in Victorian Britain: the spread in particular of syphilis, an inevitable by-product of prostitution, caused growing concern amongst campaigners for sexual respectability, who increasingly saw themselves as beleaguered by working-class permissiveness, illegitimacy and disease – in a subculture lacking selfdiscipline and respect. Prostitution was considered the ‘Great Social Evil’ and was viewed as the greatest threat to the institution of marriage. Venereal diseases were presented as God’s punishment, the wages of sin – and it was a given that only women, and never men, could be the agents of infection.
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Justine and Juliette are the two prototypical female figures in male pornography of all types. Both are wax dolls into which things are stuck. One suffers and is provocative in her suffering. The more she suffers, the more she provokes men to make her suffer. Her suffering is arousing; the more she suffers, the more aroused her torturers become. She, then, becomes responsible for her suffering, since she invites it by suffering. The other revels in all that men do to her; she is the woman who likes it, no matter what the “it.” In Sade, the “attitude” (to use Barthes’s word) on which one’s status as victim or master depends is an attitude toward male power. The victim actually refuses to ally herself with male power, to take on its values as her own. She screams, she refuses. Men conceptualize this resistance as conformity to ridiculous feminine notions about purity and goodness; whereas in fact the victim refuses to ally herself with those who demand her complicity in her own degradation. Degradation is implicit in inhabiting a predetermined universe in which one cannot choose what one does, only one’s attitude (to scream, to discharge) toward what is done to one. Unable to manifest her resistance as power, the woman who suffers manifests it as passivity, except for the scream.
The Queen's Looking Glass
...a life of feminine submission, of "contemplative purity," is a life of silence, a life that has no pen and no story, while a life of female rebellion, of "significant action," is a life that must be silenced, a life whose monstrous pen tells a terrible story.
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The Queen's Looking Glass
For to be selfless is not only to be noble, it is to be dead. A life that has no story, like the life of Goethe's Makarie, is really a life of death, a death-in-life. The ideal of "contemplative purity" evokes, finally, both heaven and the grave.
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