Most Cleanly Alive

Because only when you fuck is everything that you dislike in life and everything by which you are defeated in life purely, if momentarily, revenged. Only then are you most cleanly alive and most cleanly yourself. It’s not the sex that’s the corruption - it’s the rest.

— Phillip Roth, The Dying Animal

So true. In vino veritas (in wine [there is] the truth). In sex, there is absolution? Can sex be another form of baptism that cleanses our being? If that is true, then I need a really good baptism.

Found this quote through a link at Any Fucking Day to another blog called, Nightmare Brunette.