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| 8 | 536 | Could there be very View more quotes about different">different sorts of human beings? Were some, in effect, hollow? If so, perhaps it was natural for them to suppose that others must be as empty as they. |
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| 8 | 533 | I was familiar, of course, with the protocols of neuterism, the silly, self-contradictory tenets of unisex, invented by those apparently as innocent of logic as glands, and the pathetic absurdities of "personism," such things, the fictions, the lies, the pretenses, the many tiny, brittle crusts concealing the smoldering depths of difference, of reality, of sexuality within one. |
| 8 | 534 | But how tiresome it had been, and how frustrating, pretending to be only a surface, with no interior, no inner reality. |
| 8 | 535 | Were those who preached such stupidities, I wondered, only such a thing themselves, a one-dimensional surface, or were they simply lying. |
| 8 | 536 | Could there be very different sorts of human beings? Were some, in effect, hollow? If so, perhaps it was natural for them to suppose that others must be as empty as they. |
| 8 | 537 | But I did not think that human beings were one-dimensional or hollow, even those who spoke in such a fashion. |
| 8 | 538 | I thought that we were all very real. |
| 8 | 539 | Some of us, however, might fear to inquire into this reality. |