"The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning."
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"Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud."
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"Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect"
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"Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it."
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"Gossiping is the plague of little towns."
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"Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored."
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"fretting at trouble only doubles it."
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"Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts."
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"All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain; but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well."
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"When they are among us cats are angels"
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"a woman's heart has no wrinkles."
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"As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again."
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"living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions - no, one shouldn't do it."
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"... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply."
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"faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it."
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"These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!"
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"Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men."
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"Years do not always make age."
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"No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood."
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"Admiration and familiarity are strangers."
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