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AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. – Susan Sontag

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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. – Susan Sontag

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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Bread-Winner

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Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place. – William Blake

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The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love. – James Baldwin

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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts. – Bertolt Brecht

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