The model is indeed near at hand (Lu Ji)

In making the handle
Of an axe
By cutting wood with an axe
The model is indeed near at hand.

(Lu Ji's Wên Fu, fourth century A.D. "Essay on Literature"- in the Preface, via Gary Snyder's poem - Axe Handles)

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart (Marcus Aurelius)

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What connection can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together! Charles Dickens (in Bleak House )

The female body is a work of art (Elaine Benes)

The female body is a work of art. The male body is utilitarian. It's for gettin' around. It's like an all-terrain vehicle. Elaine Benes.

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