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Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Emilia Pardo Bazán

Emilia Pardo Bazán

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The education of women cannot be called education, but rather taming, since its ultimate goal is obedience, passivity, and submission.

Emilia Pardo Bazán

Emilia Pardo Bazán

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It is absurd for a people to place their hopes of redemption and happiness in forms of government that they do not understand.

Emilia Pardo Bazán

Emilia Pardo Bazán

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All women conceive ideas, but not all conceive children. The human being is not a fruit tree that is only cultivated for the harvest.

Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker

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Any woman who aspires to behave like a man, surely lacks ambition.

Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker

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I only ask three things of a man: that he be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker

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There are four things that I would have been better off without: love, curiosity, freckles, and doubts.

Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker

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The two most important words in the English language are: enclosed check.

Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker

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It's a relief to find in a book of rules or laws something that will never affect you.

Nicanor Parra

Nicanor Parra

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First condition of every masterpiece: to go unnoticed.

Nicanor Parra

Nicanor Parra

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Well, and now who will free us from our liberators?

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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If you do not act as you think, you will end up thinking as you act.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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I prefer to be wrong believing in a God who does not exist, than to be wrong not believing in a God who exists. Because if there is nothing afterwards, obviously I will never know it when I sink into eternal nothingness; but if there is something, if there is Someone, I will have to account for my attitude of rejection.