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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
I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination
Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience
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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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