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When queer activists appropriated the word ‘gay’ from its traditional meaning of ‘happy’, they achieved their goal of simultaneously increasing gayness and decreasing happiness.


“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot

“The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.”
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“There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.”
― The Pickwick Papers
― The Pickwick Papers

“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
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