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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…
• If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
• Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
• Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
• I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
• Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
• If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
• King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
• It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what…
• To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
• Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…
• The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

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