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"There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people."
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"I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair."
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."
"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."
"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"
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"I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am."
"Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom."
"When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome."
"As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum."
"We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth."
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