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"We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared."
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"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."

"When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself."

"She wasn't kind of lady that depended on a man and I think that's what made her so irrestible to them, any man she had loved she wanted ~ and the men that loved her back couldn't handle not being needed, so she showed them the door and grew her own wings as they walked out. Love to her isn't a maybe thing, nor is it attachment and any man whom thinks he will ever own her would be best not to try at all."

"No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself."

"I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine."

"I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning of a new kind of love."

"If your treated like a puppet find a new ball of string."

"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."

"If you should not take your thoughts seriously, then why the thoughts of others?"
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"Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy."

"So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born."

"Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking."

"We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives."
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