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Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the…
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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
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It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to…
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To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here…
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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the…
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The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge…
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What a joy it is to dance and sing!
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Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.
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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman…
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A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
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Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
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Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a…
— Edward Abbey
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Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye,…
— John Herschel
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An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.
— Remy de Gourmont
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe…
— Albert Einstein
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If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the…
— Honore de Balzac
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A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours…
— Holly Black
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As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from…
— Angela Carter
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