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by Herman Koch

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Sep 19, 2024 07:06AM

“Am certainly attentive to her but cautiously, without any impropriety that could be laid hold of. Yet my manners are certainly peculiar, not all masculine but rather softly gentleman-like. I know how to please girls.”
― Anne Lister, I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries, 1791-1840

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“Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

tags: confusion, youth

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“I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.”
― James Baldwin , Giovanni’s Room

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“Monday 29 January 1821 [Halifax]

I love and only love the fairer sex and thus beloved by them in turn, my heart revolts from any love but theirs.”
― Anne Lister

tags: glbt, love

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“My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: gender-roles, gender-stereotypes

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