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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Exception Life Live Point Yourself
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Care God Love People Religion
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Discussion Logic Philosophy Woman
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Alive Beginning Goodness Job Moments World
But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge Yourself
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

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