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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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Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the…
— Herbert Hoover
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I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than…
— Lord Byron
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That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he…
— Henry David Thoreau
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If ever the Greeks needed a Trojan horse, it is now.
— Gerald Sinstadt
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Kemp-Roth was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.
— David Stockman
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The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods…
— Karl Popper
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Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "Emergency". It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.... The invasion…
— Herbert Hoover
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A mind is a terrible thing to waste was the slogan, but now it's 95 and it's don't forget the Trojan.
— Coolio
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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans.
— Billy Joel
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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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What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?" "I don't know. But I just…
— Rick Riordan
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Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?" "Didn't they start the Trojan…
— Rick Riordan
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