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“The world is available to us, but that may be the problem.”
― Modern Romance: An Investigation
― Modern Romance: An Investigation
“If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“If sex isn't worth of its own moral category, then nor is sexual harassment or rape. If we accept that sex is merely a service that can be freely bought and sold, then we have no arguments left to make against the incels who want to 'redistribute' it or the army officials who want to offer their troops 'convenient arrangements'.”
― The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
― The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
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