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The Stranger
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When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didn’t mean anything but that I didn’t think so.
“It shouldn’t be like this. I should just be allowed to make silly internet videos and sleep safely in my own bed. But they ruined that.”
― We're Here: An Anthology of LGBTQ+ Horror
― We're Here: An Anthology of LGBTQ+ Horror
“Virtuous people always let go. They don’t prattle about pleasures and desires. Touched by happiness and then by suffering, The sage shows no sign of being elated or depressed.”
― The Dhammapada: A Translation of the Buddhist Classic with Annotations
― The Dhammapada: A Translation of the Buddhist Classic with Annotations
“We should not, therefore, try to get ‘behind’ the work, Barthes argues. There is nothing there. Instead, ‘the space of writing is to be ranged over, not pierced’ (and the metaphor suggests that the quest for intention generates a kind of violence). We should look at the text, Barthes urges, not through it. And his manifesto concludes with a ringing declaration: ‘the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author’.”
― Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction
― Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction
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