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“Modesty is invisibility...Never forget it. To be seento be seenis to be...penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.”

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“I'm fine," said Pilar, "for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.”

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And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.

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“Strange how we decorate pain. These ribbons, for instance, and the small hard teardrops of blood. Who are they for? Do we think the…

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I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.

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“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought…

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“It's my fault. I am forgetting too much.”

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“Simon walks back to the house alone. The night is clear and warm, with a moon, almost full, enclosed in a nimbus of mist;…

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“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.”

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“Every time the women appear, Snowman is astonished all over again. They're every known colour from the deepest black to whitest white, they're various heights, but each one of them is admirably proportioned. Each is sound of tooth, smooth of skin. No ripples of fat around their waists, no bulges, no dimpled orange-skin cellulite on their thighs. No body hair,…

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fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual,…

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A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…

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Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.

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“The dogma of the impossibility of determining the atomic constitution of substances, which until recently was advocated with such fervor by the most able chemists, is beginning to be abandoned and forgotten; and one can predict that the day is not far in the future when a sufficient collection of facts will permit determination of the internal architecture of molecules.…

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