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“Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism in art and in politics is a veiled longing for death.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Writing is one method of dealing with being human or wanting to suicide cause in order to write you kill yourself at the same time while remaining alive.”
― In Memoriam to Identity
― In Memoriam to Identity
“No woman could have been Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.”
― Right-Wing Women
― Right-Wing Women
“And yet, though in history the movement to restore eros to our idea of human nature and the movement for political liberation are parts of the same vision, we must make a distinction between the libertine's idea of liberty, 'to do as one likes,' and a vision of human 'liberation.”
― Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature
― Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature
“What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.”
― The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
― The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
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