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“It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one’s own existence.”
― Beware of Pity
― Beware of Pity
“The first feminist gesture is to say: “OK, they're looking at me. But I'm looking at them.” The act of deciding to look, of deciding that the world is not defined by how people see me, but how I see them.”
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“For the first time in my life I began to realize that it is not evil and brutality, but nearly always weakness, that is to blame for the worst things that happen in this world.”
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“Desire is the kind of thing that
eats you
and
leaves you starving.”
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eats you
and
leaves you starving.”
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“People don’t really care all that much about their own death. What they really worry about, their one real fixation, is how to avoid physical suffering as much as possible.”
― Submission
― Submission
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