"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
"Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing."
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Source: Joseph Conrad “The Secret Sharer and Other Stories”, W. W. Norton & Company
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