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Ah, good conversation—there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
You must learn, he told me quite firmly that day sitting cross-legged in front of me, to stop confusing sex with morality. Sex is an animal act like eating and sleeping. It is only we, the human race, who have ritualized it, glorified it, and tabooed it. It really is as simple as that, he said. He got up, and with his half-risen penis preceding him, he went to his bookshelf. And that is how the books began to pile up around the bed.
Miss Timmins' School for Girls
Nayana Currimbhoy
“I pay tribute to the past as a resource that can serve as a foundation for us to revision and renew our commitment to the present, to making a world where all people can live fully and well, where everyone, can belong.”
Appalachian Elegy
bell hooks
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