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• If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.
• She was able to feel active creation going on around her in the rocks and hills, where the mystery of lust took…
• We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with…
• Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
• Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.
• I know your breed; all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old…
• A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat…
• The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this:…
• Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
• A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us,…
• Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.
• About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

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