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“Nature is a universal that is shareable by all, males and females, men and women, and can thus be of use in mediating between all. The same does not apply for already constructed worlds and cultures. They are neither universal nor easily shareable.”
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“... only here could Jews live as of right, rather than sufferance, and only here Jews could be masters, not victims, of their fate.”
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“... she was ... never known to finish a sentence. She always got lost in the thickets of secondary thoughts that sprang up round her simple remarks ... ”
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“A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the 'One and Only' to anyone.”
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“If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters.”
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“When he came back from the gallery of the Stock Exchange ... [h]e said hats went out of that place every day that would never smile again.”
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“She always sees what you are aiming at, and with her keen eyes cuts straight through all your circumlocutions, and obliges you to descend direct on your point, with more rapidity than grace.”
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“I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!”