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A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

Human beings *do* metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity th...

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New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that...

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Salvador DalíThe Secret Life of Salvador Dalí

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept becau...

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Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the ...

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To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent"Love the world as you...

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The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune,that makes us suffer like the d...

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Samsa looked down in dismay at his naked body. How ill-formed it was! Worse than ill-formed. It poss...

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I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open u...

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At that moment, when the world around him melted away, when he stood alone like a star in the heaven...

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