“With our beloved prairie voles the female has her ovulation induced by the smell of male urine. It’s a sure sign there’s a male nearby and so her body gets ready for mating. The exact opposite of a human female getting a whiff of urinals in a nightclub and her vagina falling off in disgust”
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“I had to say to her that it isn’t just men, and it isn’t just men “like that.”
― Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature
― Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature
“A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“difference”
― The Longest Trip Home
― The Longest Trip Home
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