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The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues

The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues is a scholarly work that delves into the lives of courtesans, examining their cultural significance and the virtues they were known for. The book provides an extensive collection of biographies and descriptions of these women, highlighting their influence on art, literature, and society during their time. more

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Susan Griffin
Susan Griffin

Susan Griffin is an influential American author, born on January 26, 1943. Her works cover a range of themes including feminism, history, literature, and ethics. Griffin is known for her profound critical thinking and sharp insights into social issues. more

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“The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside you to life. Perhaps it is just the full dimensionality of your own capacity to feel that returns. In this state you think no impediment can be large enough to interrupt your passion. The feeling spills beyond the object of your love to color the whole world. The mood is not unlike the mood of revolutionaries in the first blush of victory, at the dawn of hope. Anything seems possible. And in the event of failure, it will be this taste of possibility that makes disillusion bitter.”

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“Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken, new delineations drawn over the old maps: it is from this new way of seeing the present that hope emerges for the future...Let us begin to imagine the worlds we would like to inhabit, the long lives we will share, and the many futures in our hands.”

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“Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was beginning to sour? I witnessed a similar shift in taste in my own time. In the 1960s, while a hopeful vision of a just society arose again, countless poems and plays concerning politics and public life were written, read, and performed. But after the hope diminished and public life seemed less and less trustworthy, this subject was less in style.”

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“The hard surface of the stone is impervious to nothing in the end. The heat of the sun leaves evidence of daylight. Each drop of rain changes the form; even the wind and the air itself, invisible to our eyes, etches its presence. … All history is taken in by stones.”

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