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Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, it is ever lost: 'tis to cold a companion: Away with it.

...There's little can be said in't, tis against the rule of Nature. To speak on the part of virginity is to accuse your Mothers; which is most infallible disobedience, He that hangs himself is a Virgin: Virginity murders it self, and should be buried in highwayes out of all sanctified limit, as a desperate offendress agaisnt Nature. Virginity breeds mites, much like a Cheese, consumes it self to the very payring[?], and so dies with feeding his own stomach. Besides, Virginity is peevish, proud, idle, make of self-love which is the most inhibited sin of the Cannon. Keep it not, you cannot choose but loose by it. Out with't: within ten years it will make itself two, which is a goodly increase, and the principal it self not mcuh worse. Away with't

Act I scene I

Like a man who falls in the snow, Manet has made a hole in public opinion.

Champflewry

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The finest form in which a tale appeared to him was as the figure of an individual, or a combination of individuals, whom he wished to see in action... he wrote out a sort of biography of each of his characters, and everything that they had done and that had happened to them up to the opening of the story. He had their dossier ... With this material in his hand he was able to proceed; the story all lay in the question, what shall I make them do?

Henry James on Turgenev p21 "The Portrait Game" ed. Mainwaring

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Basho