"Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity."
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"It is not cheerful for a girl to discover within twenty-four hours of her wedding that her husband is a hopeless drunkard, and to see him die of delirium tremens within six weeks. An experience so vivid, like lightning must blast something in a woman's conception of life. Because one man's kisses reeked of whisky the kisses of all male humanity were anathema."
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"Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of the world's literature has been devoted to its analysis. It's therefore of some importance."
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"No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace."
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"Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest."
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"Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?"
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"As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years."
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"Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank."
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"I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?"
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"It all depends whether hope is in front or behind you."
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