"Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate."
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"If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once."
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"I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it."
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"All right, then, I'll go to hell."
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"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."
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"Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch."
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"What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!"
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"I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist."
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"Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints."
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"I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now."
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"No one has ever learned fully to know themselves."
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"Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste."
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"Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story."
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"Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent."
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"Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all."
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"Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times."
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"I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool."
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"What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly."
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"Observation is an old man's memory."
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"Going home must be like going to render an account."
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