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“You have annoyed Dorian. He is not like other men.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“For socialism is not merely the labor question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism to-day, the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to heaven from earth but to set up heaven on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Germans love applause”—she looked down at her own moving hands—“to the point where it hurts.”
― Calla Henkel, Other People’s Clothes

“The world asks so much of us Black women, and we’re tired of being held to triple standards.”
― Lola Akinmade Åkerström, In Every Mirror She's Black