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“I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.”

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Tama Janowitz is an American novelist known for her profound depiction of life in New York City. Her works often focus on young, urban protagonists and the challenges they face in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s. more

“Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped — to reach it. For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven.”

Thinking Real Soul Self Light Earth Heaven Too Much Journey Building Casts Kingdoms Over It Links Mourn Gladness

Author:Edward Carpenter

“The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all fields of vice. Its justification by logical method as well as by precepts and examples only makes vice more horrible in effect, both for degenerate and normal beings”

Wells Principles Effects Example Fields Normal Method Vices Horrible Cruelty Logical Covered Justification Veils Gross Systematic Degenerates Philosophic Debauchery

Author:Iwan Bloch

“It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins.”

Years School Pay Cost Jail Hopkins

Author:John Money

“If I were to see the case of a boy aged ten or eleven who's intensely erotically attracted toward a man in his twenties or thirties, if the relationship is totally mutual, and the bonding is genuinely totally mutual, then I would not call it pathological in any way.”

Ifs Men Way Boys Cases Ten Twenties Mutual Eleven Bonding

Author:John Money

“It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.”

Cutting Proud Clothes Missions Analysis Mediocrity Delicate Veils Scissors Iridescent

Book:The Man of Genius

Source: The Man of Genius

“Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.”

Men Wells Reason Path Ready Genius Walking Treats Crowds Great Men Worn Good Sense Worn Path

Book:The Man of Genius

Source: The Man of Genius

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