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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
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The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand…
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Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot…
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Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers…
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The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is…
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Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing…
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Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.
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Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.
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I avoid looking in the mirror.
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I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.
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I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.
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If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to…
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When mourning the loss of our departed friends, I cannot help but think that in every death there is a birth; the…
— Wilford Woodruff
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Every death is like the burning of a library.
— Alex Haley
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The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it ends. Or…
— Sebastian Barry
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Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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In every death, a busy world comes to an end.
— Mason Cooley
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Over every living thing which is to spring up, to grow, to flower, to ripen during this day say again the words:…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.
— Al Capone
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In every death is a celebration; in every ecstasy, one little death.
— Norman Mailer
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I don't really understand the point about carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. War is hell. That's why people say…
— Ann Coulter
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A society that doesn't know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not know that death is…
— Marina Warner
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We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts…
— Charles Dickens
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I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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