«Il ruolo della donna non è stato scritto da dio, ma da uomini come te, patriarca. La donna si è quasi sempre vista negare l’accesso al sapere e alle scienze, alle scuole, alle accademie, alle biblioteche, ai Centri Studi.
“We were both wrong: she who put her faith in me, and I who thought too well of myself.”
― The Door
― The Door
“People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
“Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“I know now, what I didn’t then, that affection can’t always be expressed in calm, orderly, articulate ways; and that one cannot prescribe the form it should take for anyone else.”
― The Door
― The Door
“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
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