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There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.
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The trouble about soldiers in Mr. Siegfried Sassoon's poetry ... is that they are the kind of people who in a railroad train have to travel wi...
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The consequence of ... centuries of warfare is that military men assume a position of too great importance in the country, which is always a m...
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... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.
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I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?
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The main difference between men and woman is that men are lunatics and woman are idiots.
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Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.
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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.
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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
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There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
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The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
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The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
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People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
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Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.
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It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
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I...have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.
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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.
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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
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She was like the embodiment of all women who have felt an astonished protest because their children have died before them.
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People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
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