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“Unhappiness is caused when we cannot let go of our memories.”
“A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man.”
“Wrong way to think about it. Don't try to figure it out all at once.”
“No man can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips.”
“Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.”
“For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear.”
“The pity of it was that this discovery, if such it was, now seemed so stale, so profitless to me. What good was it? What good did thinking ever do?”
“A woman's love for a man is ha;f animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him. If a man is worth having, he must be a woman's superior; if he is her superior, ...”
“There is no mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are all alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling spark of love put out by scorn -- or worse, indif...”
“What i literally cannot describe is the hollowness in my lungs when i am out of her presence. It is as if i were dying from the want of her.”
“I know he is--sensitive--on some points, Detective, but you must bear in mind how hard it is for an honest man to do his work in relative obscurity, while dishonest men attain wealth and renown. Th...”
