Mahad
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“Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to?”
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“People suffer all over the world, every day. But people triumph all over the world every day, too.”
― Grayson's Vow
― Grayson's Vow

“To know and yet [think] we do not know is the highest [attainment]; not to know [and yet think] we do know is a disease.”
― The Art of Loving
― The Art of Loving

“The unity achieved in productive work is not interpersonal; the unity achieved in orgiastic fusion is transitory; the unity achieved by conformity is only pseudo-unity. Hence, they are only partial answers to the problem of existence. The full answer lies in the achievement of interpersonal union, of fusion with another person, in love.”
― The Art of Loving
― The Art of Loving

“Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows 'what he wants,' while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. In order to accept this it is necessary to realize that to know what one really wants is not comparatively easy, as most people think, but one of the most difficult problems any human being has to solve. It is a task we frantically try to avoid by accepting ready-made goals as though they were our own.”
― Escape from Freedom
― Escape from Freedom
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