“War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.”
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“I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.”
― The Collected Poems
― The Collected Poems
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.”
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“The same thing that makes friendship so valuable is what makes it so tenuous: it is purely voluntary. You enter into it freely, without the imperatives of biology or the agenda of desire. Officially, you owe each other nothing.”
― We Learn Nothing
― We Learn Nothing
“They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”
― Far From the Madding Crowd
― Far From the Madding Crowd
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