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Other Quotes by Doris Lessing
- Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.
- Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It's childish, why…
- It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
- You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all…
- Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are…
- People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.
- Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I…
- Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for…
- When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other…
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- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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