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"To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male."
Being
"One is not born a woman, but becomes one."
Woman
"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."
Being
"What is an adult? A child blown up by age."
Age
"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me."
Love
"Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself."
Truth
"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."
Art
"Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized."
Success
"The relation of woman to husband, of daughter to father, of sister to brother, is a relation of vassalage."
Society
"Buying is a profound pleasure."
Pleasure
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