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If each man takes his conscience as his guide he is like to become a law unto himself, and conscience often tells us that which we would hear.

Eva Figes

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for 'doing the best' for his children?

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Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.

Eva Figes

Eva Figes

Eva Figes

Born: April 15, 1932

Died: August 28, 2012 (aged 80)

Bio: Eva Figes was an English author. Figes wrote novels, literary criticism, studies of feminism, and vivid memoirs relating to her Berlin childhood and later experiences as a Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany.

Known for:

Patriarchal attitudes (1970)
Tales of innocence and experience (2003)
Nelly's version (1977)
Light (1983)

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