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The Doll (1890)
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Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.
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For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.
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A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.
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In all of nature, a male belongs to a female that he fancies and who fancies him. And so among the animals there are no idiots. But with us!... I'm a Jew, so I musn't love a Christian woman... He's a merchant, so he's got no right to a countess... And you who've got no money, you've no rights to any woman at all...
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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August 20, 1847
Died:
May 19, 1912
(aged 64)
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