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| 3 | 192 | View more quotes about beyond">Beyond this, after that night, long ago, in my bedroom, that night in which I had admitted to myself my real nature, though I had denied it often enough since, my interest in men had been considerably deepened. |
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| 3 | 189 | I could never bring myself to think of them, really, as persons. |
| 3 | 190 | To me they always seemed more meaningful, and virile, than that, even the men I knew. |
| 3 | 191 | To me, in spite of their cowardice and weakness, they still seemed, in a way, men, or at least the promise of men. |
| 3 | 192 | Beyond this, after that night, long ago, in my bedroom, that night in which I had admitted to myself my real nature, though I had denied it often enough since, my interest in men had been considerably deepened. |
| 3 | 193 | After my confession to myself, kneeling before my vanity in the darkness of my room, they had suddenly become a thousand times more real and frightening to me. |
| 3 | 194 | And this interest in them, and my sensitivity to them, and my awareness of them, had been deepened further, I think, in my experience with dance. |
| 3 | 195 | I do not think this was simply a matter of a modest reduction in my weight and, connected with this, and the exercise, a noticeable improvement in my figure, helping me to a more felicitous and reassuring self-image, that of a female in clear, lovely contrast to a male, or of the dance's prosaic improvement of such things as my circulation, my body tone, and general health, though, to be sure, it is difficult for a woman to be healthy, truly healthy, and not be interested in men, but what was really important, rather, or especially important, I think, was the nature of the dance itself, the kind of dance it was. |