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“He gave me a new German translation of the Bible and opened it to the first page. There I read again and again: 'Und die Erde war Wirrnis und Wüste. Finsternis allüber Abgrund. Braus Gottes brütend allüber den Wassern.' It could have been written about me, I thought. I thought that the beginning had been like this and I kept on hearing these words sound in my heart.”

God Creation Identity Bible Transgender Genesis Ontology German Biblical Interpretation

Book:Lili: A Portrait of the First Sex Change

Source: Lili: A Portrait of the First Sex Change

“Yes, I am as one who tries to sail against the current up over a waterfall, and I feel that the current has grabbed me and overpowered me ...... I no longer know where it leads me ...... perhaps towards complete destruction ...... and yet I cannot get off the boat now that I am halfway, the decision has been made ...... there is no turning back.”

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Book:Lili: A Portrait of the First Sex Change

Source: Lili: A Portrait of the First Sex Change

“I knew that I would never in any book find anything about people who were like me...... no poet had yet written about such a being, because it had never occurred to any poet that it could exist.”

Identity Representation Transgender Aloneness Gender Dysphoria Transgenderism Transgender Women

Book:Man into Woman: The First Sex Change

Source: Man into Woman: The First Sex Change

“That I, Lili, am vital and have a right to life I have proved by living for 14 months. It may be said that 14 months is not much, but they seem to me like a whole and happy human life.”

Life Happiness Death Fulfillment Worth Life Is Short Transgender Shortness Of Life Transgenderism Transgender Women

Author:Lili Elbe

“All other women were allowed to be ugly, to be hideous, to have all kinds of defects and flaws in their appearance. But I had to be pretty; if I did not look good, I had lost any right to exist, to be a woman ......”

Identity Insecurity Femininity Transgender Beauty Standards Transgender Issues Gender Dysphoria Prettiness Trans Women

Book:Man into Woman: The First Sex Change

Source: Man into Woman: The First Sex Change

“I am like someone who is building a bridge. But it is no ordinary bridge. On one bank I stand ...... That is the present and there I have already driven in the first poles. And from this bank I am going to build my bridge, floating in space toward the other bank that I often see not at all and otherwise only see as in a fog. Only now and then I see it quite clearly in my dreams. And then I do not know if this bank means the past or the future. This question then awakes in me: Have I only had a past or have I not had any past at all, or do I only have a future and no past?”

Past Dreams Identity Future Questions Ontology Gender Identity Past And Future Analogy

Book:Lili: A Portrait of the First Sex Change

Source: Lili: A Portrait of the First Sex Change