“…Just you bloody hypocrites with your four wives and your ten thousand houris in heaven?…”
Fiction, Devil of a State (1961)
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English writer 1917–1993Related quotes

“And look upon you with ten thousand eyes
Till heaven wax'd blind, and till the world were done.”
Poem: Love's Omnipresence http://www.bartleby.com/106/25.html

“May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.”
Source: Wolves of the Calla

Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Fire Book

Source: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 1, as interpreted by Ursula K. LeGuin (1998)
Context: The way you can go
isn't the real way.
The name you can say
isn't the real name.
Heaven and earth
begin in the unnamed:
name's the mother
of the ten thousand things.
So the unwanting soul
sees what's hidden,
and the ever-wanting soul
sees only what it wants.
Two things, one origin,
but different in name,
whose identity is mystery.
Mystery of all mysteries!
The door to the hidden.


“When love is your motto. Even heaven will not deny you success in your life.”