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Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.