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There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.
Delta of Venus
I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.
Henry and June: From A Journal of Love - The Unexpurgated Diary of Ana�s Nin (1931-1932)
There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.
All the Pretty Horses
A man may ask anything of a woman, but unless he wishes to behave like a brute, he must make it possible for her to act in harmony with her deepest self-deceptions.
The Joke
She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.
Slowness
Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you
There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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