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