>
> —[probably apocryphal](http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/09/darwinism-hope-pray/) reaction to Darwin's theory of natural selection
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> What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
>
> —Susan Sontag
>
> "The Buried Life" by Matthew Arnold
-> All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world
+> When all its work is done, the lie shall rot;
+> The truth is great, and shall prevail,
+> When none cares whether it prevail or not.
>
-> —Thomas Jefferson
+> —["Magna Est Vertias" by Coventry Patmore](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9M3ynNuBsRCDfmEsZ/less-wrong-poetry-corner-coventry-patmore-s-magna-est)
> Ultimately every examined life can be interpreted as a disaster; looking closely enough we can always discover psychological and social forces that provide fuel for unlimited rage. [...] But no life can transcend its own disasters unless it celebrates its uniqueness and contributes that which only it can contribute. Life is perverted if one is constantly reacting, never initiating, but always allowing rage to define it.
>
Moliere on "dormative virtue"
(Blanchard's Dangerous Idea)
-> MUGATU
-> The man has only one look, for Christ's sake! Crossdresser, demigirl, trans woman? They're the _same people_!
->
-> Doesn't anyone notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!
->
-> —[_Zoolander_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbKBWtoH93Q) (paraphrased)
> Perhaps someday we [...] will be able to forthrightly acknowledge the paraphilic hand we were dealt and play that hand without equivocation or apology.
>
> Well, if that's love
> It comes at much too high a cost!
-(Kolmogorov's Iron Triangle)
-> Go, Soul, the body's guest,
-> Upon a thankless arrant:
-> Fear not to touch the best;
-> The truth shall be thy warrant:
-> Go, since I needs must die,
-> And give the world the lie.
->
-> Say to the court, it glows
-> And shines like rotten wood;
-> Say to the church, it shows
-> What's good, and doth no good:
-> If church and court reply,
-> Then give them both the lie.
->
-> —["The Lie"](https://www.bartleby.com/40/48.html) by Sir Walter Raleigh
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> Stuck, in the middle of fear and shame
> Everybody's looking for someone to blame
> Like it's a game, like it's a game
>
> —_The Gods Themselves_ by Isaac Asimov
-> In desperation he quoted André Gide's remark: "It has all been said before, but you must say it again, since nobody listens." Unfortunately, judging by the quotations given here, Gide's remark is still relevant even today.
->
-> —_Making Sense of Heritability_
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> In some cases, there is a reason for one gender to adopt certain tasks—males have stronger muscles, and females give birth, and thus big game hunting tends to be done by men (who, in most cultures, are typically male).
>
> —Cailin O'Connor, "Measuring Conventionality"
> —"Eugene" by Greg Egan
(post for leaving Berkeley)
-> _I don't care about what all the others say
-> Well I guess there are some things that will just never go away, I
-> Wish that I could say that there's no better place than home
-> But home's a place that I have never known_
->
-> —"On The Run", _Steven Universe_
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-> When all its work is done, the lie shall rot;
-> The truth is great, and shall prevail,
-> When none cares whether it prevail or not.
->
-> —Coventry Patmore
> I said: "Sophie, I'm sorry things got heated last night. I understand your point of view. A lot of it used to be mine, too. Like I said, I went to U.C. Santa Cruz and Berkeley back in the 1970s, when everything was about socialism. But 40 years of life and reporting in 60 countries has taught me that life is more nuanced than that. These issues aren't that simple. They're more complicated."
>
> And Durham—the software puppet, the lifeless shell animated by a being from another plane—looked him in the eye and said, "You have to let me show you what you are."
>
> —_Permutation City_ by Greg Egan
+
+> I have had the strength to live through it, I shall have the strength to write it down.
+>
+> —"The Husband I Bought" by Ayn Rand
+
+> Because life is a gradual series of revelations
+> that occur over a period of time
+> It's not some carefully crafted story
+> It's a mess and we're all gonna die
+>
+> If you saw a movie that was like real life
+> You'd be like "What the hell was that movie about?"
+> It was really all over the place.
+> Life doesn't make narrative sense.
+>
+> —"The End of the Movie", _Crazy Ex Girlfriend_
+
+> "Oh, yes," she said, "The Ainsworth house. You designed it. I'm sorry. You just happened to be the victim of one of my rare attacks of honesty. I don't have them often. As you know, if you've read my stuff yesterday."
+>
+> "I've read it. And—well, I'll follow your example and I'll be perfectly frank. Don't take it as a complaint—one must never complain against one's critics. But really that capitol of Holcombe's is much worse in all those very things you blasted us for. Why did you give him such a glowing tribute yesterday? Or did you have to?"
+>
+> —_The Fountainhead_ by Ayn Rand
+
+> _I don't care about what all the others say
+> Well, I guess there are some things that will just never go away, I
+> Wish that I could say that there's no better place than home
+> But home's a place that I have never known_
+>
+> —"On The Run", _Steven Universe_
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