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“The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.”
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“Men are wretched by necessity, and determined to believe themselves wretched by accident.”
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“The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life experience that makes him take in the world as a problem; as a result he has to make personal sense out of it.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“In many ways, women are death's natural companions. Every time a woman gives birth, she is creating not only a life, but also a death. Samuel Beckett wrote that women "give birth astride of a grave." Mother Nature is indeed a real mother, creating and destroying in a constant loop.”
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
“It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
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This is our reading group for anybody who loves to read and identifies as a feminist. We'll be reading a variety of books that may fall into one of th ...more
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