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- What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
- Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and…
- The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from…
- Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over…
- I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night…
- The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists…
- One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
- All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s…
- For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it,…
- The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strengtheach asking from the…
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