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The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscriberesponsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. See Baldwin 54:46.
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   The fine pleasure is not to do a thing but to feel that you could? If I could but get on, if I could but produce a work I should not mind its being buried, silenced, and going no further; but it kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.

gerard manley hopkins

— 1885  Letter to Robert Bridges,1 Sep. Collected in C C  Abbott (ed)  The Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Robert Bridges (1935).

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Birds build but not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

gerard manley hopkins

— 'Thou art indeed just, Lord' (1889)

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But from the first 'twas Peter's drift To be a kind of moral eunuch, He touched the hem of Nature's shift, Felt faintand never dared uplift The closest, all-concealing tunic.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

— 1819  'Peter Bell theThird', pt.4, stanza11.

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Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.


— New York Times, 7 October 1962

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It kills me to be time’s eunuch and never to beget.

gerard manley hopkins

— Letter to Robert Bridges (September 1, 1885)

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The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

tom stoppard

— Ch. 6: An Honourable Death
This is a reference to a quote of Rudyard Kipling, "Power without responsibility — the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages," which became widely known after being quoted by prime minister Stanley Baldwin in a speech of 1931-03-17.

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To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

john updike

— Ch. 4 (Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989))

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Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.


— New York Times, 7 October 1962

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