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“Gefühle, wie Marcel Mauss schreibt, »nicht ausschließlich psychologische oder physiologische Phänomene [sind], sondern soziale Phänomene, die auf außerordentliche Weise den Stempel der Nichtspontaneität und der absoluten Verpflichtung tragen«!”

„As an outsider, you can retreat into a shell, be anonymous, be invisible. Or you can go the other way. You protect yourself by opening up. You don’t ask to be accepted for everything you are, just the one part of yourself that you’re willing to share. For me, it was humour. I learned that even though I didn’t belong to one group, I could be a part of any group that was laughing.” (p 141)