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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
- 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
- It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
- 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
- It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
- Colette (1873 - 1954), The Pure and the Impure, 1932
- Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ), Metropolitan Life, 1978
- Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
- Colette (1873 - 1954), Chance Acquaintances, 1952
- There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
- Colette (1873 - 1954), 'Freedom,' 1908
- I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
- Colette (1873 - 1954), The Last of Cheri, 1926
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