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It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you.
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loneliness
dysmorphia
fighting-yourself
dissonance
imperfection
transgender
struggling
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David Levithan |
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How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
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dissonance
repression
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Frank Herbert |
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This is the greatest mystery of the human mind--the inductive leap. Everything falls into place, irrelevancies relate, dissonance becomes harmony, and nonsense wears a crown of meaning. But the clarifying leap springs from the rich soil of confusion, and the leaper is not unfamiliar with pain.
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pain
meaning
inductive-leap
dissonance
harmony
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John Steinbeck |
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So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.
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change
sanctification
dissonance
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Edith Wharton |
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Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
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dissonance
self-delusion
obedience
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T.H. White |
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You have a consistent character yourself and you wish all the facts of life to be consistent, but they never are. For instance you despise public service because you want work always to correspond to its aims, and that never happens. You also want the activity of each separate man to have an aim, and love and family life always to coincide--and that doesn't happen either. All the variety, charm and beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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incongruity
spectrum
dissonance
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Leo Tolstoy |