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  All I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am! (Biff-Death of a Salesman)  

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After all these years, he was finally becoming a grownup. What did he mean by that? That he was finally beginning to understand the multitudinous aspect of people. He was amazed by it, really, now that he thought about it. In his study of history, he had learned about the leaders, and the various groups involved, but he had somehow missed this fact about every single person: that they held within themselves a vast, unknowable universe. And he understood that it could make a person lonely; people had to take and give to one another whatever they could. If it was not enough ... well, then it meant one just had to be a grownup.

THE THINGS WE NEVER SAY - Elizabeth Strout

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FERDINANDO - Annibale Ruccello

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Finché gli lasceremo facoltà di giudizio sul diritto a un nostro spazio l'uomo non potrà fare a meno di occuparlo, poiché non è uno spazio fisico quello di cui si parla - sebbene esista anche lo spazio fisico di cui siamo private - ma uno spazio storico, psicologico e mentale.

SPUTIAMO SU HEGEL E ALTRI SCRITTI - Carla Lonzi

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When I think about what kind of theater I would like to make, I think about what kind of theater I would like to see. And if you don't like to see what I like, don't bother coming to the show. - Eric Bogosian -

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In its ideal sense, speaking is a potent act, an assertion of sovereignty that simultaneously implies a relationship of equality with other speaking subjects.

GENDER TROUBLE - Judith Butler

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If you don't go out in the woods, nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.

WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES - Clarissa Pinkila Estés

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I choose whether or not I want to conform to unrealistic beauty ideals perpetuated by the media.

Fucking Feminist - Rose Lewenstein

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Everything dressed in flesh can yield a dizzying beauty if you concentrate on it long enough, and his beauty leapt out without apology.

THE VAMPIRE ARMAND - Anne Rice

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Everybody who was ever alive only seen one sun. No wonder people used to think it was god himself.

ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS - Ocean Vuong

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“Don’t chase these memories” he said. He said it as if we’d been talking all the while that I slept.                                                                                                  

“I’m afraid to remember” I said.                                                                              

“I know” he answered.                                                                                          

“How can you know?” I asked him. “I have it in my heart. It’s mine alone this pain” I was sorry for sounding so bold, but whatever my guilt, the boldness came more and more often.                                                                                          

“Do you really doubt me?” he asked.                                                                  

“Your endowments are beyond measure. We all know it, and we never speak of it, and you and I never speak of it.”                                                                        

“So why don’t you put your faith in me instead of things you only half recall?” He got up from the desk and came to bed.

- THE VAMPIRE ARMAND - Anne Rice 

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So why study history? History is not a mean for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the future but to widen our horizons, to understand that our present situation is neither natural nor inevitable, and that we consequently have many more possibilities before us that we imagine.

SAPIENS - Yuval Noah Harari

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Jodie had the peculiar courage of a girl who never expected to be hit by a man - which was strange, because all three siblings had seen their mother suffer at the hands of her boyfriends. There was no man that Jodie would not answer back, and although Mungo admired that about his sister, he thought she put too much faith in the decency of men. This belief, this bravery, gave her a gallus tongue. When they were little, Jodie, opened her smart mouth amongst gangs and neds and wrote cheques that Hamish would have to cash later. More than once, Mungo had been chinned by some boy he had never met, and then told to pass it along to his mouthy sister.

Young Mungo - Stuart Douglas 

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Being a vampire for him meant revenge. Revenge against life itself. Every time he took a life it was revenge. It was no wonder, then, that he appreciated nothing. The nuances of vampire existence weren't even avaible to him because he was focused with a maniacal vengeance upon the mortal life he'd left.

Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice

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LARRY: You should write another one.

DAN: Haven’t got a subject.

LARRY: [...] Don’t tell me you haven’t got a subject, every human life is a million stories. Thank God life ends - we’d never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious ... our body will kill us ... our bones outlive us. 

CLOSER - Patrick Marber 

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Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away.

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CLAIRE: I shall never shoot myself. I’m too interested into destruction to cut it short.

THE VERGE - Susan Glaspell

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We would look for pieces of everyone we'd lost, in mirrors and crowds.

AUĒ - BECKY MANAWATU