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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

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But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

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One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.

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