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- Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
- Gloria Steinem (1934 - ), Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, 1983
- Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
- Simone Weil (1909 - 1943), Gravity and Grace, 1947
- It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
- Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978
- I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
- In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey, 1818
- The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
- Colette (1873 - 1954), Paris From My Window, 1944
- I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school; you feel you've achieved something when you haven't.
- Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle, 1948
- One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie (1867 - 1934), letter to her brother, 1894
- I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
- Dorothy Day (1897 - 1980), The Long Loneliness, 1952
- You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.
- Tove Jansson, Tales from Moominvalley, 1963
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