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“Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it—but there is.”
― The Story of an African Farm
― The Story of an African Farm
“When I am an old woman I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.”
― Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
― Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― The Persian Boy
― The Persian Boy
“We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic knowledge to bring into being animals that suffer more.”
― Eating Animals
― Eating Animals
“I have discovered that of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls' boarding-school is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate.”
― The Story of an African Farm
― The Story of an African Farm
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