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“Being beautiful, was that for men?'
'Yes. Some women say that it is for ourselves. What on earth can we do with it? I could have loved myself whether I was hunchbacked or lame, but to be loved by others, you had to be beautiful.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
'Yes. Some women say that it is for ourselves. What on earth can we do with it? I could have loved myself whether I was hunchbacked or lame, but to be loved by others, you had to be beautiful.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“faith is not opposed to reason”
― Catechism of the Catholic Church
― Catechism of the Catholic Church
“I began choosing isolation of my own accord. Maybe so I could convince myself I wasn’t really alone.”
― A Silent Voice, Vol. 1
― A Silent Voice, Vol. 1
“Sometimes, I used to sit under the sky, on a clear night, and gaze at the stars, saying, in my croaky voice: “Lord, if you’re up there somewhere, and you aren’t too busy, come and say a few words to me, because I’m very lonely and it would make me so happy.” Nothing happened. So I reckon that humanity— which I wonder whether I belong to —really had a very vivid imagination.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
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