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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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“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
― Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature
― Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature
“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
“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
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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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Retro Reads
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The 52 Book Club: 2026 Challenge
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