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"Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or-and the outward semblance is the same-crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more."
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"The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong."
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"Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord."
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"Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or-and the outward semblance is the same-crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more."
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"Poverty is a force that pulls down the head of the people."
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"Hardship makes the world obscure."
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"There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades."
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"By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly."
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"However, with a gut full of heroin, it's hard to be an optimist."
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"Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice."
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"The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow."
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"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not."
Respect
"The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash."
Friendship
"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty."
Family
"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."
Poetry
"A pure hand needs no glove to cover it."
Needs
"In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it."
Nature
"A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon."
Emotional
"Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments."
Earth
"My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered."
Creativity
"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."
Thought
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