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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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Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's…
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One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that…
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Know how to get close to it: mountains are often seen from far off - beautiful, interesting, full of challenges. But what…
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The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is…
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I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own…
— Erica Jong
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It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about…
— Edmund Gibson
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Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.
— Erica Jong
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying…
— Lucretius
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