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  1. Slavoj Žižek _ The Puppet and the Dwarf: The

    So when the ruling ideology enjoins us to enjoy sex, not to feel guilty about it, since we are not bound by any prohibitions whose violations should make us feel guilty, the price we pay for this absence of guilt is anxiety.
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  2. Virginie Despentes _ King Kong Théorie

    Je suis plutôt King Kong que Kate Moss, comme fille. Je suis ce genre de femme qu'on n'épouse pas, avec qui on ne fait pas d'enfant, je parle de ma place de femme toujours trop tout ce qu'elle est, trop agressive, trop bruyante, trop grosse, trop brutale, trop hirsute, toujours trop virile, me dit-on.
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  3. Oliver Sacks _ The Man Who Mistook His Wife

    When the neglect is severe, the patient may behave almost as if one half of the universe had abruptlyceased to exist in any meaningful form.... Patients with unilateral neglect behave not only as if nothingwere actually happening in the left hemispace, but also as if nothing of any importance could beexpected to occur there.
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  4. Max Lucado _ Cast of Characters: Common

    Focus on giants - you stumble.Focus on God - Giants tumble.
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  5. Max Lucado _ Cast of Characters: Common

    Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.
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  6. John Barth _ L'algebra e il fuoco

    Daniel C. Dennett, un filosofo della Tufts University che ne sa sia di neuroscienze che di informatica, sostiene che la coscienza stessa ha un aspetto essenzialmente narrativo, radicato nell'evoluzione biologica del cervello. Non ho la competenza per riassumere le argomentazioni di Dennett, ma vengo persuaso d'acchito dalle sue conclusioni – perlomeno se considerate come una narrazione esplicativa. Egli concepisce la coscienza essenzialmente come «creatrice di situazioni immaginarie in stesure multiple»; concepisce il sé come un come se, un «ipotetico Centro di Gravità Narrativa» – in breve, una fantastica e incessante narrazione. «Noi siamo le storie che raccontiamo a noi stessi e agli altri riguardo a chi siamo», afferma il professor Dennett – storie che rivediamo e rettifichiamo in continuazione e che in continuazione rivedono e rettificano noi stessi. A questo punto vi chiedo: il meditare su domande del genere ha mai reso chicchessia uno scrittore migliore? Non sarebbe più saggio se un narratore meditasse sulla casistica dell'amore, sui particolari di un tramonto, o magari sulle vicissitudini della nave spaziale U.S.S. Enterprise? Forse sì, forse no. Ma nel porci domande del genere, come nel creare di continuo situazioni ipotetiche, facciamo quello che ci viene naturale – che forse viene più naturale ad alcune persone che ad altre.
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  7. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ Between the World and Me

    Part of me thinks that your very vulnerability brings you closer to the meaning of life, just as for others, the quest to believe oneself white divides them from it.
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  8. Tobias Wolff _ This Boy's Life

    I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to tell. But I have done my best to make it tell a truthful story.
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  9. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Eating Animals

    The persistence of the story of animal consent into the contemporary era tells of a human appreciation of the stakes, and a desire to do the right thing.
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  10. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Eating Animals

    Before child labor laws, there were businesses that treated their ten-year-old employees well. society didn't ban child labor because it's impossible to imagine children working in a good environment, but because when you give that much power to businesses over powerless individuals, it's corrupting. When we walk around thinking we have a greater right to eat an animal than the animal has a right to live without suffering, it's corrupting.
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  11. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Eating Animals

    The choice-obsessed modern West is probably more accommodating to individuals who choose to eat differently than any other culture has ever been, but ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore - "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" - can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society. Food choices are determined by many factors, but reason {even consciousness} is not generally high on the list.
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  12. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Eating Animals

    A simple trick from the backyard astronomer: if you are having trouble seeing something, look slightly away from it. The most light-sensitive parts of our eyes {those we need to see dim objects} are on the edges of the region we normally use for focusing. Eating animals has an invisible quality. Thinking about dogs, and their relationship to the animals we eat, is one way of looking askance and making something invisible visible.
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