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The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the s ...
One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity--not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification of ...
An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when t ...
The mother whose self-image is dependent on her children places on those children the responsibility for her own identity, and her ...
Having an identity at work separate from an identity at home means that the work role can help absorb some of the emotional shock ...
Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willin ...
Unlike Boswell, whose Journals record a long and unrewarded search for a self, Johnson possessed a formidable one. His life in Lon ...
...I ... know the bitter fact that most lives are incredibly wasted, that opportunities for developing identity, for receiving ple ...
Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity. The promiscuous w ...
Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's age ... that familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth or ...
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