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| 4 | 259 | But it is View more quotes about hard">hard for them, as for you, to ignore the drums of nature, pounding in the blood". |
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| 4 | 256 | Rawlinson. |
| 4 | 257 | "And doubtless, in young men, stresses and pressures also exist, quite different from those which trouble you, which you strive to ignore or repudiate, but complementary to them. |
| 4 | 258 | They, too, in this world, have their different whisperings, which they, too, are expected to strive to ignore or repudiate. |
| 4 | 259 | But it is hard for them, as for you, to ignore the drums of nature, pounding in the blood". |
| 4 | 260 | It struck me as strange that she had used the expression 'in this world'? What other world could there be? Could there be another world, one in which one need not strive to ignore or repudiate what one truly was? Was it so wrong, to be true to one's nature, whatever it might be? Was nature so terrible? Had it not preserved extant species for countless generations? "Too," she said, "you are young, intelligent, healthy, curious, and hormonally active. |
| 4 | 261 | Too, perhaps you are not wholly happy, or at ease with yourselves. |
| 4 | 262 | Perhaps you are miserable, bored, unsatisfied. |