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

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But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Balance Deep Feeling Opposite Problem Reality Wealth
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Continue Ego Live Reason Thinking
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
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
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom

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

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