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Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and…
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The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.
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It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a…
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Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give…
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Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is…
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There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.
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Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.
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Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit…
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There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
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All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death…
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Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.
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For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep…
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Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So…
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Men tell us in these days that sin is what you think it is. Well, it is not. Sin is what God…
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Dead men tell no tales.
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Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error.…
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Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos…
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The next time your daughter asks, 'Where are all the men?' Tell them that the Democratic party and its policies got rid…
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A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting…
— Rebecca West
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Dead men tell no tales, Mary.
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Holy men tell us life is a mystery. They embrace that concept happily. But some mysteries bite and bark and come to…
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Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you ever even hope…
— David Foster Wallace
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I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.
— Candace Bushnell
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Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world,…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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