“Now piercèd is her virgin zone;
She feels the foe within it.
She hears a broken amorous groan,
The panting lover's fainting moan,
Just in the happy minute.”
― John Wilmot, quote from The Complete Poems
“Bawdy in thoughts, precise in words,
Ill-natured though a whore,
Her belly is a bag of turds,
And her cunt a common shore.”
― John Wilmot, quote from The Complete Poems
“Then, if to make your ruin more,
You'll peevishly be coy,
Die with the scandal of a whore
And never know the joy.”
― John Wilmot, quote from The Complete Poems
“This signior is sound, safe, ready, and dumb
As ever was candle, carrot, or thumb;
Then away with these nasty devices, and show
How you rate the just merits of Signior Dildo.”
― John Wilmot, quote from The Complete Poems
“God bless our good and gracious King,
Whose promise none relies on;
Who never said a foolish thing,
Nor ever did a wise one.”
― John Wilmot, quote from The Complete Poems
“Man differs more from man than man from beast”
― John Wilmot, quote from The Complete Poems
“A kind of losing loadum is their game,
Where the worst writer has the greatest fame.”
― John Wilmot, quote from The Complete Poems
“All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on,
From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.”
― John Wilmot, quote from The Complete Poems
“Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense”
― John Wilmot, quote from The Complete Poems
“How blest was the created state
Of man and woman, ere they fell,
Compared to our unhappy fate:
We need not fear another hell.”
― John Wilmot, quote from The Complete Poems
“Merely for safety, after fame we thirst,
For all men would be cowards if they durst.”
― John Wilmot, quote from The Complete Poems
John Wilmot
Born place: in Ditchley, Oxfordshire, England, The United Kingdom
Born date April 1, 1647
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“الصعوبة الخاصة في ادراك الى اي مدى لا تكون فيه رغباتنا -وافكارنا ومشاعرنا بالمثل- حقا رغباتنا بل وُضعت فينا من الخارج مرتبطة ارتباطا وثيقا بمشكلة السلطة و الحرية. في سيرورة التاريخ الحديث حلت محل سلطة الكنيسة سلطة الدولة وحلت محل سلطة الدولة سلطة الضمير وفي حقبتنا الراهنة حلت محل سلطة الضمير السلطة المجهولة للحس المشترك العام والرأي العام كأدوات للتطابق. ولاننا قد حررنا انفسنا من الاشكال الصريحة القديمة للسلطة فاننا لا نتبين اننا اصبحنا فريسة نوع جديد للسلطة. لقد اصبحنا آلات آلية نعيش في ظل وهم الافراد ذوي الارادة الذاتية. هذا الوهم يساعد الفرد على ان يظل غير مدرك لعدم زعزعته, ولكن هذا هو كل العون الذي يستطبع وهم ان يمنحه. ونفس الفرد ضعيفة اساسا, حتى انه يشعر بالعجز والزعزعة الشديدية. انه يعيش في عالم فقد فيه التعلق الاصيل به والذي فيه قد اصبح كل شيء وكل شيء مصطبغا بصبغة الاداة التي تؤدي عملها بلا تفكير حيث اصبح جزءا من آلة بنتها يداه. انه يفكر ويشعر ويريد ما يعتقد انه مفروض فيه ان يفكر فيه ويشعر به ويريده, وفي هذه العملية ذاتها يفقد نفسه التي عليها يجب ان ينبني كل أمان أصيل لفرد حر.”
― Erich Fromm, quote from Escape from Freedom
“I told you that you make me a better man... and I'm trying so fucking hard to be that for you, but I'm failing miserably.”
― K. Bromberg, quote from Crashed
“Perfection is God; simplicity is perfection. The curse of curses is that men will not let truths like these alone.”
― Lew Wallace, quote from Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
“I sit up in bed slowly, feeling the disappointment trickle away like puddles after a rain shower.”
― Scarlett Thomas, quote from The End of Mr. Y
“There exists a creature which is perfectly harmless; when it passes before your eyes you scarcely notice it and forget it again immediately. But as soon as it invisibly gets somehow into your ears, it develops there, it hatches, as it were, and cases have been known where it was penetrated even into the brain and has thriven devastatingly in that organ, like those pneumococci in dogs that gain entrance through the nose.
This creature is one's neighbor.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, quote from The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
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