"She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul."
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"If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell."
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"The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it."
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"Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either."
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"There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano."
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"art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe."
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"The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy."
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"The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you."
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"Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages."
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"To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere."
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"[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others."
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"There is no escape from mystery. It is the character of our being."
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"domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health."
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"The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived."
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"It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it."
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"History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious."
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"sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words, are the foundations of all language. ... Your cat has no words, but it has considerable feeling for the architecture of the sentence in relation to the problem of expressing climax."
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"It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions."
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"Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever."
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"I had a glorious father, I had no father at all."
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