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“Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“I thought yesterday would never end. There was over me a yearning for sleep in some sort of blind belief that to wake would be to find things changed, and that any change must now be for the better.”
― Dracula
― Dracula
“I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.”
― Dracula
― Dracula
“I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.”
― Dracula
― Dracula
“What’s the difference between venerating women for being fuckable and putting them on a purity pedestal? In both cases, women’s worth is contingent upon their ability to please men and to shape their sexual identities around what men want.”
― The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
― The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
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