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“The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views upon the grave controversy above given.”
“An average woman is in this superior to an average manthat she never instigates, only responds.”
“Always wanting another man than your own.”
“If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.”
“They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men.”
“Like enthusiasts in general, he made no inquiries into details of procedure.”
“being a harp which the least wind of emotion from anothers heart could make to vibrate as readily as a radical stir in her own.”
“I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know!”
“you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.”
“Well, here I am, just come home; a fellow gone to the bad; though I had the best intentions in the world at one time. Now I am melancholy mad, what with drinking and one thing and another.”
“It takes two or three generations to do what I tried to do in one; and my impulses--affections--vices perhaps they should be called-- were too strong not to hamper a man without advantages; who sho...”
“All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.”
“Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in.”
“Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.”
“You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.”
“But you shouldn't have let her. That's the only way with these fanciful women that chaw high--innocent or guilty. She'd have come round in time. We all do! Custom does it! It's all the same in the ...”
“I hate to be what is called a clever girlthere are too many of that sort now!”
“He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much a...”
“You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!”
