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“if Moses had seen the way my friend’s face blushes when he’s drunk, and his beautiful curls and wonderful hands, he would not have written in his Torah: do not lie with a man”
― Judah Alharizi, The Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain

tags: jewish, queer, religious

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“I wanted to stand before a mirror and look out and look at myself. I opened my mouth and stretched out my voice over the buzz of passing cars.

"He made me!" I screamed.
"I'm made!”
― Justin Torres

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“What need had I of so many efforts? The soft lines of these hills and the hand of evening on this troubled heart teach me much more.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays

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“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

tags: insightful, lonely, thought-provoking

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“Character is destiny, according to Shakespeare. And yet our bodies, above all our faces, are so bound up with how others perceive us, one might say that, especially for a woman, they are just as powerful an influence over our destinies. Our faces influence the perceptions others hold of us, and those perceptions influence, in turn, our character.”
― Alex Landragin, Crossings

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