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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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Satan had two conditions [to his plan]: the first was the denial of agency, and the second, that he would have the…
— James E. Faust
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We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the…
— Philip Wollen
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Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is…
— D. H. Lawrence
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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt…
— Cyril Connolly
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The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we…
— Janet Fitch
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Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything,…
— Lisa Unger
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Rhoda comes now, having slipped in while we were not looking. She must have made a tortuous course, taking cover now behind…
— Virginia Woolf
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It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed,…
— Jane Goodall
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The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we…
— Janet Fitch
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These animals hunt for food and survival we hunt for sports man is the only animal in the animal kingdom we torture…
— Kathryn Powell
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