The Word Orgasm in the Title

It may, therefore, be a subject worthy of curiosity to inquire what is the nature of that evidence which assures us of any real existence and matter of fact, beyond the present testimony of our senses, or the records of our memory.

– David Hume

"You remind me of a story by Henry James."

"What story by Henry James?"

"I don’t know. I never read Henry James, but isn’t that the kind of thing he wrote?"

– Frank O’Hara

He who is earnest and meditative obtains ample joy.

– The Dhammapada

Day in, day out

I hunger and

I struggle

– Sappho

I feel like I’ve been eaten by a bear and crapped over a cliff.

– Doug Allyn

I know it was a big joke, whatever it was all about.

– Bob Dylan

When one thought arises, another follows. When the first thought springs from enightenment all subsequent thoughts are true. Through delusion one makes everything untrue. Delusion is not caused by objectivity, it is the result of subjectivity. Hold the nose ring tight and do not allow a doubt.

– Kakvan

Throw off this ignoble discouragement, and arise like a fire that burns all before it.

– Bhagavad Gita

But all living art will be irrational, primitive and complex; it will speak a secret language and leave behind documents not of edification but of paradox.

– Hugo Ball

Never mind the ridicule,

Never mind the defeat;

Up again, old heart!

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consciousness is the agent, not the age.

– R. P. Blackmur

I firmly believe that not only too much consciousness, but any sort of consciousness is a disease. Hence it follows that as a result of that intensified consciousness you are quite right in being a blackguard.

– Fyodor Dostoevsky

It was the marriage of the voices of nature and the soul – the dawn of a mystic creation.

– Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Whatever was not unity; whatever was irregular, exceptional, outlawed; and this was the whole human race.

– Henry Adams

The Holy Mother and Child greeted me with a gentle smile. The figure on the cross, incomprehensible as always, left me cold.

– August Strindberg

If people of inferior intelligence hear of the Tao, they laugh immediately. It would not be the Tao unless they laughed at it.

– Lao Tse

I began to realize that I had transcended the conceptual framework of the existing human character structure and, with it, our civilization during the past five thousand years.

I must reject another criticism, namely that I unnecessarily provoked the public by the word "orgasm" in the title of a book. There is no reason whatever of being ashamed of this function. Those who are squeamish about it need not read further.

– Wilhelm Reich

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