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“He was, so to speak, the most excellent of tyrants; his sway was absolute, but he used it well. ... both wife and children were affectionately inclined toward him — for some people are happiest in being thus ruled; it takes away so much moral responsibility.”
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“... when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.”
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“Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death ... ”
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“It is true that I never should have married, but I didn't want to live without a man. Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.”
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“Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.”
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“There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.”
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“Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.”
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“So yeah, anyway — I'm thirty-four and my mother is desperate for me to get married. She thinks settling down is what you should be doing at thirty-four. How would she like it if I turned to her the day she hits eighty and said: 'Hey, Mum — when are you going to break your hip? All your friends are breaking theirs'?”