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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.
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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
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Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.
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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
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Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
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Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.
Source: American Pastoral (1997) -
Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life.
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Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.
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Meditation simply means a discipline that makes you capable of being aloof and detached from your mind. So even if the mind is sick, your consciousness is never sick. Even if your mind is going crazy, you are just witnessing it. Mind is only a machine. You are not.
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Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
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Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
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Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.
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Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.
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Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
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