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“It was a pity that with his great qualities, his unselfishness and honor, his intelligence and sensibility, he should be so unlovable.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

tags: love, the-painted-veil, unlovable

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“Anyone without spiritual aspirations is a fool”
― Sōseki Natsume, Kokoro

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“the whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano-key!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground

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“...you don't really become a finer person just by reading lots of books.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro

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“How silly men were! Their part in procreation was so unimportant; it was the woman who carried the child through long months of uneasiness and bore it with pain, and yet a man because of his momentary connection made such preposterous claims. Why should that make any difference to him in his feelings towards the child?”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

tags: childbearing, children, conception, men, procreation, women

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