Leslie Feinberg
(1949–2014) activist and author known for authoring Stone Butch Blues
“I have lost my sense of a universe. They say this is the richest era of human existence; but I think a man can be richer in knowing every atom of a single golden island in a blue sea than by spending his days striding among all the worlds.”
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Robert Silverberg
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book
The Man in the Maze
Source: The Man in the Maze (1969), Chapter 1, section 2 (pp. 13-14)
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