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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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Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.
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Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.
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My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.
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American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth.…
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