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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"
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"What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth."

"In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will."

"No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim."

"As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world."

"They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise."

"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it."

"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."

"Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light."

"Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John."
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