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I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

— August Strindberg A Madman's Diary (1895)

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A playwright is a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

Colin Jarman (1993)

Every healthy man is a woman-hater—yet he cannot survive if he does not ally himself with his enemy and bring about strife. All deviates and effeminate perverts among men have an adoration for women!

The beginning and the end—for us men anyhow. In relationship to one another they are nothing.

"To love" is an active verb, and "woman" is a passive noun. He loves—she is loved; he interrogates—she merely answers!

Nothing in themselves; but everything for us, through us! Our honour and our shame; our greatest joy, our deepest pain; our redemption and our fall; our wages and our punishment; our strength and our weakness.

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A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest but poor.

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Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.

Alexander Pope

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)

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