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“Screw us once, shame on them; screw us twice, shame on us.”

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Born in 1965, Jessica Zafra is a renowned fiction writer known for her unique narrative style and profound humanistic concerns. Her works have won widespread acclaim and have been recognized both domestically and internationally. more

“Yes, this world is truly terrible, which is why the pure and the holy come bravely forward: They have decided to eradicate the sins of the world. They want to standardize people, keep them in order, keep them in place under their own rear ends. They are the reason I have had to die a hundred times.”

People World Want Life Ends Reason Order Dies Sin This World Terrible Holy Pure Hundred Decided

Book:Getting used to dying: a novel

Source: Getting used to dying: a novel

“I've come to realize that it is much easier to infatuate people with promises, or even to lead them to their own deaths, than it is to awaken them to use their minds.”

People Life Mind Use Realizing Easier Promise

Book:Getting used to dying: a novel

Source: Getting used to dying: a novel

“Mountains and rivers are easy to move, but it's impossible to change a man's nature.”

Men Life Moving Easy Impossible Mountain Rivers

Author:Zhang Xianliang

“It is certainly not true that the population can be easily divided into those who lead healthy lifestyles, and those who do not: most people's patterns are mixed, with both good and bad areas of life.”

People Healthy Areas Patterns Population Lifestyle Divided Good And Bad Healthy Lifestyle

Author:Mildred Blaxter

“To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit of artificially framed styles of life. (...) Not just lifestyles, but self-actualisation is packaged and distributed according to market criteria.”

Self Greater Style Degrees Projects Possession Lifestyle Pursuit Goods Criteria Framed

Book:Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

Source: Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

“Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.”

World Social Achieve Demand Lifestyle Engagement Retreat

Book:Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

Source: Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

“The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.”

Choices Culture Risk Importance Difficulty Lifestyle Secular Lifestyle Choices

Book:Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

Source: Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

“A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security - that connects options in a more or less ordered pattern. (...) [T]he selection or creation of lifestyles is influenced by group pressures and the visibility of role models, as well as by socioeconomic circumstances.”

Wells Important Certain Roles Groups Security Creation Habit Circumstances Models Pressure Unity Patterns Lifestyle Role Models Continuing Selection Orientation Visibility Clusters

Author:Anthony Giddens

“Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity.”

Self Light Acting Practice Identity Habit Eating Dresses Lifestyle Mobile Self Identity

Author:Anthony Giddens

“Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.”

Sometimes Half Situation Crazy Lifestyle Sometimes In Life

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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