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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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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
— Rebecca West
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In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.
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The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but…
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That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject when they see you coming. And…
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That is the strangest thing about the world: how it looks so different from every point of view.
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I didn't think i could possibly love another baby as much as I loved the one I'd already had," I continue. "But…
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I stared into Jared's eyes, and the strangest thing happened. All the melting and melding I had just been through was shoved…
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