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“Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.”

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This novel delves into the complex journey of self-discovery and the challenges faced by individuals navigating their sexual identity. more

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John Irving

John Irving is an American novelist known for his intricate narrative structures and profound character development. His works often explore themes of family, love, morality, and identity, enjoying great popularity among readers. more

“Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.”

Men Giving Doe Self Moments Next Existence Conditions Determine Determined Determinism Search For Meaning

Book:Man's Search for Meaning

Source: Man's Search for Meaning

“It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation.”

Mind Doe Play Law Differences Impossible Draws Towns Bad Things Gravitation

Book:Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

“No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.”

People Stills Lost Animal Silence Lessons Accepted Civilized Stillness Aptitude Wild Animal

Book:Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

“I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party - that's a big thing - but I don't go to parties. I'm social but I'm not a socialite person.”

Years Persons Bigs Might Social Party Dinner Oscars Big Things Jackets Socialites

Author:Graydon Carter

“Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so.”

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Book:The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

Source: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

“For an instant she felt them, their identities, almost their substance, pass over her head like a wave. At some time she would be — or no, already she was like that too; she was one of them, her body the same, identical, merged with that other flesh that choked the air in the flowered room with its sweet organic scent; she felt suffocated by this thick sargasso-sea of femininity.”

Body Would Be Felt Rooms Air Sea Identity Sweet Wave Flesh Substance Instant Thick Scent Femininity Identical

Book:The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle

Source: The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle

“The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart.”

Heart Persons Whole Christ Alive Wonderful Terrible Draws Wounds Heal Relax Adoration

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.”

Needs Evil Easy Natural Flower Fallen Right Thing Cultivation Easy Things Evil Things

Book:The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit

Source: The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit

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