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“Nay, had I power, I should
Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
Uproar the universal peace, confound
All unity on earth.”
― Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Whereas man grows old gradually, woman is suddenly deprived of her femininity; she is still relatively young when she loses the erotic attractiveness and the fertility which, in the views of society and in her own, provide the justification for her existence and her opportunity for happiness.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“I shall write it in my diary to-night.'
'What?'
'That a burnt child loves the fire.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“What are you doing here and how can I persuade you to stay?”
― Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life