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“There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.”

...people are rendered sociable by their inability to endure solitude, that is to say, their own society. They become sick of themselves. It is in this vacuity of soul which drives them to intercourse with others-to travels in foreign countries. Their mind is wanting in elasticity; it has no movement of its own, and so they try to give it some-by drink, for instance. How much drunkenness is due to this cause alone!

"If you encounter an attractive person, then self-restraint is the resource needed; if pain or weakness, then stamina; if verbal abuse, then patience.'

“Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the anonymous roller that pressed upon my life a certain intricate watermark, whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life’s foolscap.”