How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.
— Margaret Drabble
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The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.
Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me, the ability to think in quotations.
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.
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