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“To tell about a drunken muzhik’s beating his wife is incomparably harder than to compose a whole tract about the ‘woman question.’”
Ivan Turgenev
Truth
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Abuse
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Society
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Reality
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Storytelling
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“There were Hegelians, now there are only nihilists.”
Ivan Turgenev
Philosophy
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Change
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Ideology
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Society
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Thought
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“The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.”
Ivan Turgenev
Change
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Belief
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Society
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Nihilism
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Ignorance
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“In ieder geval zal het bij een juiste inrichting van der maatschappij geen enkel verschil maken of iemand dom of verstandig, slecht of goed is.”
Ivan Turgenev
Society
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Equality
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Structure
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Morality
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Wisdom
5.
“We act by virtue of what we recognize as beneficial. At the present time, negation is the most beneficial of all – and we deny.”
Ivan Turgenev
Negation
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Action
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Belief
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Philosophy
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Society
6.
“It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.”
Ivan Turgenev
Romanticism
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Art
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Critique
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Society
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Emotion
7.
“Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.”
Ivan Turgenev
Habit
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Individuality
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Perception
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Humor
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Society
8.
“A society that forgets about art risks losing its soul.”
Camille Paglia
Art
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Society
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Culture
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Soul
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Identity
9.
“Western man represents himself, on the political or psychological stage, in a spectacular world-theater. Our personality is innately cinematic, light-charged projections flickering on the screen of Western consciousness.”
Camille Paglia
Western
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Society
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Psychology
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Theater
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Identity
10.
“Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.”
Camille Paglia
Television
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Reality
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Media
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Society
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Culture
11.
“Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?”
Camille Paglia
Society
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History
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Politics
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Rome
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Power
12.
“When anything goes, it’s women who lose.”
Camille Paglia
Women
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Gender
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Society
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Loss
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Equality
13.
“Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.”
Camille Paglia
Motherhood
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Gender
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Conflict
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Society
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Family
14.
“Woman’s sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman’s entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it.”
Camille Paglia
Sexuality
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Career
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Nature
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Gender
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Society
15.
“There is such a thing as seduction, and it needs encouragement rather than discouragement in our puritanical Anglo-American world.”
Camille Paglia
Seduction
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Encouragement
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Society
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Puritanical
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Sexuality
16.
“Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus, a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.”
Camille Paglia
Mythology
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Beauty
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Gender
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Society
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Art
17.
“Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.”
Camille Paglia
Gender
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Masculinity
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Society
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Identity
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Culture
18.
“This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as unthinkingly wedded to dogma as any junior member of the Spanish Inquisition.”
Camille Paglia
Politics
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Free Speech
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Society
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Government
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Censorship
19.
“Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.”
Camille Paglia
Politics
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Democratic Party
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Society
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Class
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Government
20.
“I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.”
Camille Paglia
Safety
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Gender
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Danger
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Society
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Awareness
21.
“I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society’s care.”
Camille Paglia
Law
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Equality
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Politics
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Rights
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Society
22.
“Women’s studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.”
Camille Paglia
Feminism
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Education
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Society
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Gender
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Politics
23.
“Despite crime’s omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.”
Camille Paglia
Society
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Crime
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Order
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Biology
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Psychology
24.
“Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.”
Camille Paglia
Gender
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Sex
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Society
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Masculinity
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Philosophy
25.
“The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.”
Camille Paglia
Terror
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Gender
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Fear
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Society
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Philosophy
26.
“If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct – unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where women clone themselves by parthenogenesis, as famously do Komodo dragons, hammerhead sharks, and pit vipers.”
Camille Paglia
Gender
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Future
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Science
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Society
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Feminism
27.
“My philosophy of equity feminism demands removal of all barriers to women’s advancement in the political and professional realms. However, I oppose special protections for women in the workplace. Treating women as more vulnerable, virtuous, or credible than men is reactionary, regressive, and ultimately counterproductive.”
Camille Paglia
Feminism
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Politics
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Equality
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Gender
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Society
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“Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature.”
Camille Paglia
Society
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Nature
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Philosophy
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Change
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Existence
29.
“Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.”
Camille Paglia
Poetry
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Art
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Society
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Spirituality
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Vision
30.
“As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal.”
Camille Paglia
Politics
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Government
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Elections
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Society
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Leadership
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