“If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!”
“To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know how to be dead.”
Source: Immortality
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And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.”
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Part II, Ch. I
The Possessed (1872)
"Birth" (1947), trans. Peter Dale Scott
Daylight (1953)
Context: He doesn't know birds live
In another time than man.
He doesn't know a tree lives
In another time than birds
And will grow slowly
Upward in a gray column
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Of the silver of underworld kingdoms.
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The Way of Life, According to Laotzu, 1944.
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“When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?”
Observer (London, Sept. 30, 1956)
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)