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“When one loves, it has nothing to do with sex.”
― On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX: Encore
― On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX: Encore
“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
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“There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“It is necessary that I should die for my people; but my spirit will rise from the grave and the whole world will know that I was right”
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“This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.”
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Eli’s 2025 Year in Books
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