"I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?"

-- Albert Camus

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“Permanent weight loss means making small, manageable changes and sticking with them for life.”
“In the darkness of your thoughts I would like to be a light.”
“Being a mother of two little girls, it was an absolute nightmare for me to teach them about sexual abuse.”
“I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12" x 8" black suÃ¨de purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it.”

Source : Margaret Halsey (1944). “...Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”
“The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing... there are times when the simple dignity of movement can fulfill the function of a volume of words. There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. This is the dancer's justification for being, and his reason for searching further for deeper aspects of his art.”
“The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.”

Source : Rebecca West (2011). “The Meaning of Treason”, p.426, Open Road Media
“This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.”

Source : Oswald Spengler (1967). “Aphorisms”
“Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.”

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