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"The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing."
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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."
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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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"What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."
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"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."
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"I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay."
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"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."
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"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."
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"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."
Time
"It is always thus impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last that we make our irrevocable decisions."
Life
"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."
Grief
"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes."
Desire
"... seeking to indicate to her by the extent of his gratitude the corresponding intensity of the pleasures which it was in her power to bestow on him, the supreme pleasure being to guarantee him immunity, for as long as his love should last and he remain vulnerable, from the assaults of jealousy."
Love
"It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is why, so very often the weight of the past lies ineluctably upon the present. But that is why it is so real in memory, so wholly itself, so far beyond replacement."
Memory
"Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees."
Art
"Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things."
Life
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
Wisdom
"Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness."
Intelligence
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