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"“I felt as if all the life had disappeared from my eyes. Once, when I was a girl in Berlin, Grandmother had told me that they were my best feature, that men would fall in love with me because of them, and, in my vanity, I had longed for the day she would be proved right. Now they were the color of barbed wire, of rusty ovens, of smoke and ash." — Jul 18, 2026 03:12PM
"“I felt as if all the life had disappeared from my eyes. Once, when I was a girl in Berlin, Grandmother had told me that they were my best feature, that men would fall in love with me because of them, and, in my vanity, I had longed for the day she would be proved right. Now they were the color of barbed wire, of rusty ovens, of smoke and ash." — Jul 18, 2026 03:12PM
“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
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“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
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In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
In the beginning the Universe was created.
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― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
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― As You Like It
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