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Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs ... and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannie... - MORE Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs ... and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies the most ignominious instincts are deposited. Mundane life proclaims the total subjugation of eroticism to privacy.

Walter Benjamin

privacy

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When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental—far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns. - MORE When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental—far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

Franz Grillparzer

insight | far-sightedness

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The adolescent frequently supposes that she is breaking out of the confines of her mundane, schoolgirl existence simply in order t... - MORE The adolescent frequently supposes that she is breaking out of the confines of her mundane, schoolgirl existence simply in order to break rules and defy authority. . . . She rids herself of the "oughts" and "musts" that convert every minor infraction into a sin of omission or commission. It certainly does not occur to her or to her family that by questioning the moral standards she erected as a child she is taking the first steps in her journey toward a firmer, more reasonable, less harsh, more ethical form of conscience.

Louise J. Kaplan

adolescent development in girls | growing up female | adolescence

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Prophecy today is hardly the romantic business that it used to be. The old tools of the trade, like the sword, the hair shirt, and... - MORE Prophecy today is hardly the romantic business that it used to be. The old tools of the trade, like the sword, the hair shirt, and the long fast in the wilderness, have given way to more contemporary, mundane instruments of doom—the book, the picket and the petition, the sit-in ... at City Hall.

Jane Kramer

prophecy

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A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aestheti... - MORE A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.

David Mamet

theater

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For a parent, it's hard to recognize the significance of your work when you're immersed in the mundane details. Few of us, as we r... - MORE For a parent, it's hard to recognize the significance of your work when you're immersed in the mundane details. Few of us, as we run the bath water or spread the peanut butter on the bread, proclaim proudly, "I'm making my contribution to the future of the planet." But with the exception of global hunger, few jobs in the world of paychecks and promotions compare in significance to the job of parent.

Joyce Maynard

parenthood

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Pregnant women! They had that weird frisson, an aura of magic that combined awkwardly with an earthy sense of duty. Mundane, becau... - MORE Pregnant women! They had that weird frisson, an aura of magic that combined awkwardly with an earthy sense of duty. Mundane, because they were nothing unique on the suburban streets; ethereal because their attention was ever somewhere else. Whatever you said was trivial. And they had that preciousness which they imposed wherever they went, compelling attention, constantly reminding you that they carried the future inside, its contours already drawn, but veiled, private, an inner secret.

Ruth Morgan

pregnancy and childbirth

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