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It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.
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We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to…
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Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.
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Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour…
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They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions…
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Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career…
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The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual…
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Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall…
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Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to…
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Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
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You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.
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Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill…
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Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry…
— Anthony de Mello
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Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career…
— Rose Macaulay
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All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they 'marry' and raise children.
— Phyllis Chesler
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People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images.…
— Unknown Author
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Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger. A man and a woman fall in love, as they say; each is…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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God says, 'One woman, one man,' and everyone says, 'Oh, that's old hat, that's that old Bible stuff,'" he said. "But I'm…
— Phil Robertson
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Several of our children have married outside my faith. Would I prefer they marry within their religion? Yes, because I know that…
— Bernie Siegel
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The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to…
— Edward Dahlberg
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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
— Michel de Montaigne
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People in the CIA, they marry each other. They're like actors! We have to travel without much warning to far-flung places, and…
— Claire Danes
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