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"Daddy is trying really fugging hard to think of a not-terrifying reason why you'd wake Daddy up in the middle of the night to ask that fugging question. But no. No. Daddy does not have a match or a lighter."

"The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life."
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"A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up."


"I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering."


"As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow."


"On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath."


"My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved."


"You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly."


"There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion."
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