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"It's a man's world, and you men can have it."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."
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"Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt."
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"I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing."
"I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that."
"Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled."
"Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else."
"Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined."
"Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning."
"They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not."
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