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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

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Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fighting and apparently inescapable----And so why sh...more

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War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.

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The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is mere...more

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Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.

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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

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Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.

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Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.