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/ page 903 of 1205 /I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.
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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
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Society, like nature, is one body, really.
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Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.
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In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.
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Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.
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Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.
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What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
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I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.
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Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.
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Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.
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It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.
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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.
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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.
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Prose talks and poetry sings.
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
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