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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."

"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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"A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away."

"Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?"

"Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it."

"To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness."

"In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness."

"In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!"

"One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity."

"Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly."
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