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| 13 | 1459 | "In View more quotes about english">English, as I see now, interestingly, virginity is spoken of as a positive property, and nonvirginity, in spite of its obvious and momentous importance, and even its necessity, presumably, for the continuation of the species, seems to be regarded as being merely the absence of a property, or the privation of a property". |
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| 13 | 1456 | "In the first case, virginity is seen as something to be succeeded, and, in the second, it is seen as something which is conceived of as merely antedating the state of falarina. |
| 13 | 1457 | It takes its very meaning from the fact that it is not yet falarina". |
| 13 | 1458 | "Both of these situations are quite different from the English," she said. |
| 13 | 1459 | "In English, as I see now, interestingly, virginity is spoken of as a positive property, and nonvirginity, in spite of its obvious and momentous importance, and even its necessity, presumably, for the continuation of the species, seems to be regarded as being merely the absence of a property, or the privation of a property". |
| 13 | 1460 | "Yes," I said. |
| 13 | 1461 | "It is as though the whole spectrum were divided into the blue and the nonblue. |
| 13 | 1462 | Properly understood the nonblue is every bit as real, and is even more extensive and variegated than the blue". |