"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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"Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.“
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"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
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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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