"Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing."
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"The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman."
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"Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love."
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"Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings."
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"At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman."
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"I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail."
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"Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them."
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"The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go."
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"To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon."
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"Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?"
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"Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet."
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"I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published."
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"Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence."
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"I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive."
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"The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself."
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"There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line."
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"Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety."
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"It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing."
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"The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write."
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"Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff."
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