"Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equa… - Simone de Beauvoir

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

Yes, I would, if they are the kind that shakes.

As far as I am concerned sexuality no longer exists. I used to call this indifference serenity: all at once I have come to see it in another light — it is a mutilation; it is the loss of a sense. The lack of it makes me blind to the needs, the pains, and the joys of those who do possess it.