It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.
That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.
If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?
What a joy it is to dance and sing!
