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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

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One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God.

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Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less.

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The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada.

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Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons.

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Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

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If male homosexuals are called "gay," then female homosexuals should be called "ecstatic."

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Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.

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My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

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