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Life is the great teacher.

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Love me. Love my umbrella.

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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

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I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on.

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If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.

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Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.

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Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.

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Thought is the thought of thought.

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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

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(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.

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You cannot eat your cake and have it.

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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?

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Redheaded women buck like goats.

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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

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My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out.

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Gentle lady, do not sing Sad songs about the end of love; Lay aside sadness and sing How love that passes is enough. Sing about the long deep sleep Of lovers that are dead, and how In the grave all love shall sleep: Love is aweary now.

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I'll tickle his catastrophe.

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He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If he were a painter he would paint her in that attitude. Her blue felt hat would show off the bronze of her hair against the darkness and the dark panels of her skirt would show off the light ones. Distant Music he would call the picture if he were a painter.

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