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“All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict──how to contain it, or abolish it.”
― Marxism and Politics
― Marxism and Politics
“No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.”
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“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
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“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.”
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“If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality?”
― Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
― Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
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