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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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People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.
— Russell Brand
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Even when people are rich and successful on TV shows, there's always some trouble - you have to poke holes in them,…
— Drew Carey
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I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't…
— Johnny Cash
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To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw…
— Maya Angelou
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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…
— Rebecca West
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To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.
— Confucius
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[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a…
— Carl Sagan
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Do not put chewed bones back on plates. Instead, throw them on the floor for the dog.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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God willing, we will throw them into the sea.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it…
— Philip Roth
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Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies.
— Unknown Author
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We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because…
— Barack Obama
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