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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…
• The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.
• It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a…
• Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give…
• Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is…
• There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.
• Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.
• Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit…
• There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
• All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death…
• Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.
• 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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