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"Butler dear, I didn’t know you were capable of writing for a lay audience too. I hope this gives me fewer headaches than Gender Trouble" — Dec 28, 2025 01:37PM
"Butler dear, I didn’t know you were capable of writing for a lay audience too. I hope this gives me fewer headaches than Gender Trouble" — Dec 28, 2025 01:37PM
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"Really good insights on Medusa, Jocasta, Helen, and the Amazons. I’m enjoying the audiobook but I also can’t annotate anything to refer back to which is frustrating, but I brought that upon myself." — Dec 09, 2025 10:38AM
"Really good insights on Medusa, Jocasta, Helen, and the Amazons. I’m enjoying the audiobook but I also can’t annotate anything to refer back to which is frustrating, but I brought that upon myself." — Dec 09, 2025 10:38AM
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"Oh my. On page 13 and I am already floored. I have a suspicion this will become one of my all time favourites." — Nov 09, 2025 06:34PM
"Oh my. On page 13 and I am already floored. I have a suspicion this will become one of my all time favourites." — Nov 09, 2025 06:34PM
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
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“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
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“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
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“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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