“ Here was the drama of the flesh. an architectonic system of skeleton and muscle, a musical arrangement of ellipsoids and undulating arcs. ”
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“ LAUREATE, adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral. Of all incumbents of that high office, Robert Southey had the most notable knack at drugging the Samson of public joy and cutting his hair to the quick; and he had an artistic color-sense which enabled him so to blacken a public grief as to give it the aspect of a national crime. ”
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“ Sometimes in my dreams there are women…When such dreams happen, immediately I remember, 'I am a monk.'…It is very important to analyze 'What is the real benefit of sexual desire?' The appearance of a beautiful face or a beautiful body - as many scriptures describe - no matter how beautiful, they essentially decompose into a skeleton… ”
- The Dalai Lama- Copy
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