"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
-Joseph Conrad
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"As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.“
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"Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends."
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"Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life."
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"A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth."
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"The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power."
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"He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense."
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