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"It grieved him plaguily, he said, to see the nuptial couch defrauded of its dearest pledges: and to reflect upon so many agreeable females with rich jointures, a prey for the vilest bonzes, who hide their flambeau under a bushel in an uncongenial cloister or lose their womanly bloom in the embraces of some unaccountable muskin when they might multiply the inlets of happiness, sacrificing the inestimable jewel of their sex when a hundred pretty fellows were at hand to caress, this, he assured them, made his heart weep."
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"I prefer having sex with myself rather than with someone who wants something instead."
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"Lovers look in the pants, they look in the eyes."
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"Polygamy is about sex, whereas monogamy is about love."
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"Meeting, for the first time in person, someone that you've 'known' for sometime online = Taking the relationship to the 'previous' level."
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"We fellowship with God when we fellowship with people."
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"She had accepted him as he was and had spared him a great deal of loneliness. He had been unfair: while his imagination and vanity had given her too much importance, his pride had given her too little. He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage."
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"People who inspire such contradictory emotions must be worthwhile, I reasoned."
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"I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing."
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"People do change. And no matter how close we once were, and how much we opened up to each other, maybe neither of us know anything substantial about the other."
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"I'm my beloved's and my beloved is mine."
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"I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction."
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"I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning."
Ethics
"You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use- silence, exile, and cunning."
Philosophy
"Wombed in sin darkness I was too, made not begotten. By them, the man with my voice and my eyes and a ghost-woman with ashes on her breath. They clasped and sundered, did the coupler's will."
Spiritual
"He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music."
Emotion
"When I die Dublin will be written in my heart."
Heart
"I fear those big words which make us so unhappy."
Fear
"He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took possession of him. He felt how useless it was to struggle against fortune, this being the burden of wisdom which the ages had bequeathed him."
Philosophy
"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."
Man
"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not."
Love
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