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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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"The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers."


"I'll be blasted', he said, 'if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I'll write, from this day forward, to please myself."


"Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then-our friends are not able to finish their stories."


"And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?"


"I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter."


"Anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm."


"He felt himself now, as he had often fancied other people, adrift on the stream, and far removed from control of it, a man with no grasp upon circumstances any longer. Old battered man loafing at the doors of public-houses now seemed to be his fellows, and he felt, as he supposed them to feel, a mingling of envy and hatred towards those who passed quickly and certainly to a goal of their own. They, too, saw things very thin and shadowy, and were wafted about by the lightest breath of wind. For the substantial world, with its prospect of avenues leading on and on to the invisible distance, had slipped from him."
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