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Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture (Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism)

by Per Faxneld

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""...radical texts do not always have a predominantly radical readership. Many were (and still are) interested in reading this type of literature in order to be titillated or horrified, or because it has other qualities (e.g. being aesthetically admirable) than its ideological content."" — Oct 06, 2025 11:07AM

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Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

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""That day was sunshine from start to finish. All nature seemed to be on a vacation. The flower beds and lawns of Saint-Cloud were balmy with perfume; the breeze from the Seine vaguely stirred the leaves; the boughs were gesticulating in the wind; the bees were pillaging the jasmine; a whole bohemian crew of butterflies had settled in the yarrow, clover, and wild oats."" — Apr 14, 2021 06:03PM

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Brianna’s Quotes

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

tags: art, capitalism, change, literature, power, resistance, writing

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“We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent. I desperately wanted mercy for Jimmy Dill and would have done anything to create justice for him, but I couldn't pretend that his struggle was disconnected from my own. The ways in which I have been hurt—and have hurt others—are different from the ways Jimmy Dill suffered and caused suffering. But our shared brokenness connected us.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

tags: humanity, suffering

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“Life kisses our faces every morning. Yet, between morning and evening, she laughs at our sorrows.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: day, life, morning, sorrow

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“We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent. I desperately wanted mercy for Jimmy Dill and would have done anything to create justice for him, but I couldn’t pretend that his struggle was disconnected from my own. The ways in which I have been hurt—and have hurt others—are different from the ways Jimmy Dill suffered and caused suffering. But our shared brokenness connected us.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

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“On the one hand we need the image of "the text" in order to focus on anything at all; on the other hand we use the metaphor of "reading" to signal that our apprehension of a text will always be partial, that we never quite reach the "text itself," a realization that has led certain critics to question the very existence of such an object.”
― Espen J. Aarseth, Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature

tags: authorial-intent, fabula, reading, sjuzet, text

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