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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.
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I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible…
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It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and…
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When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I…
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A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day…
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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
— Francis Bacon
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She defaced my fly. And I've never been the same since.
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