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Concurrently, when it comes to matters of the heart we are encouraged to treat partners as though th...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

If he stays inside himself, if he is contained within his nature as he is participant in the larger ...

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I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any ...

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To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institutio...

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A book has neither object nor subject; it is made of variously formed matters, and very different da...

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Gilles DeleuzeA Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

We commonly speak as though a single 'thing' could 'have' some characteristic. A stone, we say, is '...

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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question...

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Whenever the balance of power was unequal, there was a driver and a driven. Power was the lethal vic...

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The world is inseparable from the subject, but from a subject which is nothing but a project of the ...

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To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that whi...

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The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of a...

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Thomas JeffersonWritings: Autobiography/Notes on the State of Virginia/Public & Private Papers/Addresses/Letters

All objects exist in a moment of time.

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Amy TanThe Bonesetter's Daughter

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.