"Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms."
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"literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry."
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"One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature."
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"Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent."
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"Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside."
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"There is no just and serene criticism as yet."
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"Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day."
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"In literature it is only the wild that attracts us."
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"Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?"
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"Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man."
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"The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much."
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"There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages."
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"May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!"
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"How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?"
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"Faith never makes a confession."
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"I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men."
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"To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him."
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"The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?"
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"The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman."
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"I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen."
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