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Because I do not want to commit the crime of giving life to beings who later may be unhappy and curse the moment of their birth.

— Gabriela Zapolska

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Source: Fin-de siecle'istka, 1894
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My conscience is clear and I shall not fear the light of day.

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Oh, what times, what times we have lived to witness! No hay for the flock — no human integrity.

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I have come to terms with life and I steal away with whatever is most agreeable. That is the pinnacle of wisdom.

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When did you ever see an honest woman with red hair?

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Death is the answer to everything.

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I don’t have any time to think.

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Description: the words by the character, Helena. Her answer to the question why she will not have children. She later changes her mind and has a child.

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Philosophy

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Each and every suicide must be mad, must have lost her sense of morality, her faith in the omnipresence of God.

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Every woman is a pianoforte – only one must know how to play her.

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A woman ought to proceed through life calmly and quietly.

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A woman does not need to adorn herself underneath for her husband, young sir.

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Stop daubing yourself with paint, because you look like an old tenement building patched up for the emperor's grand parade.

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