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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
You are not thrown to the winds . . . you gather certainly and safely around yourself, Yourself! Yourself! Yourself forever and ever! It is not to diffuse you that you were born of your mother and father—it is to identify you, It is not that you should be undecided, but that you should be decided; Something long preparing and formless is arrived and formed in you, You are thenceforth secure, whatever comes or goes.
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman, American Renaissance Books
You know by a certain age that, contrary to appearances, all of us are weird, with our squinchiness, jabs, denial, judgment, tone deafness, and we can also be so lovely that it breaks your heart.
Small Victories
Anne Lamott
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