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“Women don't see men the way men want to be seen. They see all the tender places, all the places where blood could flow.”
― James Baldwin, Another Country

“My assumption, which goes against the orthodox view of knowledge, is that there is no direct correlation between objects and knowledge and that understanding is constantly recreated. This work is thus part of a growing body of literature in the social sciences and humanities that questions the possibility of a singular truth.”
― Stefan Tanaka, Japan's Orient: Rendering Pasts into History

“Blessed are all simple emotions, be they dark or bright! It is the lurid intermixture of the two that produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue