The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul will grow sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
Howl, Beat poet
Attributed to Ginsberg, but often associated with Oscar Wilde. Ginsberg quoted or referenced it frequently.
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"I have been wrathful all my life, angry against my father and all others. My wrath must end. All my images now are of heaven."
Shocking"If homosexuality is a disease, let’s all call in queer to work."
Controversial"I'm a romantic. I'm a sentimentalist. I'm a humanist. I'm all of those things."
Controversial"Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!"
Philosophical"I am a question, and I am an answer, and I am a problem, and I am a solution, and I am a cause, and I am an effect."
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