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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.

Erica Jong

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Advice Answer Become Get Good Happy Married Philosopher Socrates Wife Wish
Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Equivalent Existence Perception
I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Age Believe Close Consciousness Enjoy Every Fictional Identity Own People Read Time Transcend Whether
It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Circle Get Horrible Incomplete Look Lose Older Wonderful
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Fun Had Jealousy Think
I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Brighter Could Darkest Even Just Know Night Special Star Think Truly
Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Earth Every Feel Itself Know Orphan Soul
The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Did Die Love Only Simple Truth Wish
I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Anger Enough Know Laughter Old Revelation True
Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Investment Love Marriage
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Dumb Guy Hardly Lot See Smart Women
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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City Liquid Migrate Mirror Once Soul Stone
Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Hope Implies Journal Keep
Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Find Going Later Life Often Own Poem Predict Write
I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Able Cry Ever Experience Mist Must Stand Think Use Wonder
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Exploit Group History Idealize Only Powerless Women

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