When God tells Eve that Adam will “rule over her,” he is simply lamenting what is to come. God is not commanding it. His language is descriptive, not prescriptive. Adam naming Eve, putting her in her place, was neither what God ordained nor
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“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”
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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
― Paris Spleen
― Paris Spleen
“dogs sharing an interest in a spillage (I imagine the dogs are called Zak Briefcase and Lengthy Parsnips).”
― The Satsuma Complex
― The Satsuma Complex
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