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" How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness. "
Sick
Respect
Myself
" I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more. "
Five
Believe
More
" I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. "
Experience
Human
Intellectual
" I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am. "
Education
More
I Am
" One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. "
Medical
Interview
Experience
" Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul. "
Soul
Mind
Great
" The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in? "
Fun
Come
Difficulty
" The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape. "
Success
Moment
Lie
" Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity. "
Worth
Value
Quantity
" What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading. "
Reading
Book
Escape
" You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied. "
She
You
Woman
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