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We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

We Tourists History Irony
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It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

One Paradoxes American Litrature
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The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

Tension Yes No Can
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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Time Nothing Children Obedience
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The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

Like Book Slowly Read
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There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

Something Real People Stage
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In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.

Age Given Letter-writing Important
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For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.

Years Using Role Sex-object
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The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

Divorce World Tragedy Necessarily
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We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

We dream Give ourselves Hope Never change
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If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Can't change Your fate Your attitude
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Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

Chance First step You take Luck
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Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

Must teach My daughter Same lesson Lose
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Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?

Hate The result Wounded love
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I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.

I love Am loved Freely Nothing expected
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You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

You remember You want Your heart Allow
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Too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.

Much happiness Always overflowed Into tears Sorrow
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For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

My mother Not believe Be anything Be me
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Why do you think you are missing something you never had?

You think Missing something Never had
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Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.

Think Too much You believe More choices
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How can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

The world Chaos Many coincidences Similarities
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If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?

Recognize evil Other people I have Become evil
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It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

Distorted form Inverse logic Hopes Come true
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You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.

Have pride Each day Not arrogance Born with
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When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?

Already believe Suddenly stop Loyal friend
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They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.

Happiness lies A cave Country In love
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Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

Your tears Wash away Your sorrows Feed someone
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With hope, a mind is always free.

With hope Mind Always free
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We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

Are living A word Everything Society
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While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.

Good Speak well Better The truth
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Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

Men Distinguished Women Commitment
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I dream that love without tyranny is possible

I Dream Love Tyranny
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Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

Women's Fashion Euphemism Created
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The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.

Fact Trained Mothers Infancy
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While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Gossip Women Ridiculed Low
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Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more--also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.

Truth Harder Ignorance Valued
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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Money Speaks Male Voice
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Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

Undernourished Intelligence Starving Child
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When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.

Two Individuals Gender Bedroom
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Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

Childbearing Glorified Part Women
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As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.

Long Rape Going Peace
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My hatred is precious. I don't want to waste it on those who are colluding in their own oppression.

Hatred Precious Want Waste
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The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

The Child's Laughter Pure
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I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how.

I Think Want Love
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Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
Is World Illusion Fools
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Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

Anticipation Greater Part Pleasure
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I desire therefore I exist.

I Desire Therefore Exist
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Her beauty is a symptom of her disorder, of her soullessness.

Her Beauty Symptom Disorder
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Memory is more indelible than ink.

Memory Indelible Than ink
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A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

A kiss Hand Feel very Good
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