"Love's a thin Diet, nor will keep out Cold."

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Source : Aphra Behn (1871). “The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn: With Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes...”, p.219

Aphra Behn

“Attitudes toward other creatures is conditioned by one's level of security within the universe.”
“I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.”
“I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it doesn't mean a thing to me. But I haven't got any money, so, you know, I just keep on working.”
“He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.”
“The most subversive thing a woman can do is talk about her life as if it really matters.”
“My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.”
“Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.”
“I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.”

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