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Christina Stead Quotes: A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.
         

A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.


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No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.



If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.



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A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.



The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.

The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.



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Venus can see at night without eyes.



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Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic



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When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.



About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.



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Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.



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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.





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Allah tests our patience and our fortitude. He tests out strength of faith. be patient and there will endless rewards for you, insha'Allah" - Utaz Badr




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The greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe that the devil has died.



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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.



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The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.



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I started to do everything I could to succeed, but found that the more successful I became, the less people liked me.



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I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.



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I think I just realized that having a problem - an eating disorder - it's not healthy and you can actually die from that. I realized it's not worth it and you just need to be healthy.




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