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I want to know all of you all, do you understand? That will bring us even closer together. And it was one thing I felt about you in the beginning, that day in the garden, that you had had much to conquer more than most men. It was a part of your force and of your knowledge of life. You were not a sexless ascetic who preached a mere neutral goodness. Does that shock you?" He smiled in turn.
She had built up in herself an enormous habit of reference to these upstairs people, she had curbed down all discordant murmurings of her soul, her very instincts were perverted or surrendered. She was sexless, her personal pride was all transferred, she mothered another woman's child with a hard, joyless devotion that was at least entirely compatible with a stoical separation.
"Do you know what you are, women like you, who have money and freedom to 'live your own lives'? You are sexless; you haven't nature's great apology for the animal, desire. Such women sin, when they sin, with their minds. Great God!
Only Una was not sexless. Though she hadn't the dancing-girl's oblivious delight in pleasure, though her energetic common sense and willingness to serve had turned into a durable plodding, Una was alive, normal, desirous of love, as the flower-faced girl grind of the college so often is not, to the vast confusion of numerous ardent young gentlemen.
"You travel a good deal on your figure, pardner, don't you?" she said, with a certain admiration that was quite sexless in its quality; "but I don't see how you pick up a living by it in the Carquinez Woods. So you're going, are you? You might be more sociable. Good-by." "Good-by!" He leaped from the opening. "I say pardner!" He turned a little impatiently.
The present self hardly counted. All the old ambitions, desires, urgencies, which had been his impulsive forces were gone quiescent anyhow. He was as sexless, as cool, as an image carved in jade. And he was here in this lover's paradise this was what drew the tribute of a smile to the humor of the high gods with Paula. And Paula was more ardently in love with him than she had ever been before.
'It's never so bad for the lunatic, he said, 'as for the sane people looking on. 'Oh, I don't suppose they mind, said Hermione 'women like that. 'It's flattery to call them women. They're sexless monstrosities, said Paul Filey. 'You know some of them? Vida raised her head. 'I? Filey's face was nothing less than aghast at the mere suggestion. 'But you've seen them ? 'Heaven forbid!
The one thing I do want, more than anything else, is a man friend. I have thought a great deal about such a friendship the give and take on equal terms, the sexless companionship of mind what it could be like!" He brushed the twigs from the lichens between them and made no answer.
"To keep the conversations fresh, just as salt keeps food fresh. The question is not why we say them, but how we say them. It would be rude indeed to talk with a charming lady as if she were a sexless Amphibium. It is a duty and an obligation to allude constantly to what she is and is going to be.
His imagination was singularly sexless. Pathological students have pointed out the relation between this characteristic of Poe's writing, and his known tendencies toward opium-eating, alcoholism, and tuberculosis. But no such explanation is at hand to elucidate the absence of sexual passion from the novels of the masculine-minded Fenimore Cooper.
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