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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“give your daughters difficult names. give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. my name makes you want to tell me the truth. my name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.”
― Warsan Shire

“I don't see what women see in other women, I told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man? Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, Tenderness. That shut me up.”
― Sylvia Plath

“Создают и формируют человека три силы: наследственность, среда и неизвестный фактор Икс. Вторая сила — среда — самая ничтожная из трех, а третья — фактор Икс — самая важная.”
― Владимир Набоков, Lectures on Literature