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“و این خیالات ، همچون متنی خیالانگیز، ملودی های فاخر جعبه موسیقیاش را همراهی می کرد. برای همین سازش دیگر به چشمش ابزاری مکانیکی نبود و در نتیجه در نواختنش ذوق و قریحه به خرج میداد، چرا که اشتیاق، دلواپسی و اندوه درونش همه در دستی که با آن اهرم جعبه موسیقی را میچرخاند جمع شده بود و باور داشت که حال و هوای روحیاش باعث می شود قویتر یا آرامتر، پراحساستر یا حماسیتر جعبه را به صدا در بیاورد. عاشق سازش شده بود، سازی که به کمک آن میتوانست به زبانی دیگر تکلم کند که تنها خودش از آن سر در میآورد. آندریاس پوم نوازندهای واقعی بود.”
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“I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There is no reason to assume that gender also ought to remain as two. The presumption of a binary gender system implicitly retains the belief in a mimetic relation of gender to sex whereby gender mirrors sex or is otherwise restricted by it.”
― Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
― Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
“It's the loneliest people who love books the most...it was the opposite of loneliness, too, like there were too many people around me, forced connections, that I needed a little isolation to think on my own, to be my own person.”
― A Woman Is No Man
― A Woman Is No Man
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