It is this outer reach of existential abnegation – the moment where subjective identity deserts itself and becomes enslaved without consciousness of its subjugated condition – that Mirbeau consistently sought to decry with horror.


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Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you expr...
EMILY BLUNT
I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people f...
EMILY BROWNING
I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than ...
EMILY BROWNING
The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because i...
EMILY BLUNT
Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.
EMILY OSTER
To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the ...
EMILY POST
When we anthropomorphize the egg and sperm, when we turn them into a miniature bride and groom compl...
EMILY MARTIN
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
EMILY DICKINSON
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON
I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they ha...
EMILY BRONTE
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
EMILY DICKINSON
Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces e...
EMILY POST
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have go...
EMILY POST
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
EMILY DICKINSON
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
EMILY DICKINSON
I'm kind of effectively bipolar.
EMILY BLUNT
It's amazing what sleep does for your looks.
EMILY PROCTER
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
EMILY DICKINSON
Everyone wants to belong, or be a part of something bigger than themselves, but it's important t...
EMILY GIFFIN
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
EMILY DICKINSON
To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
EMILY DICKINSON
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone...
EMILY DICKINSON
If you asked me which gives me more joy, my work or my family, there is no question that it's my...
EMILY OSTER
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
EMILY DICKINSON
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
EMILY BRONTE
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
EMILY DICKINSON
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
EMILY DICKINSON
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
EMILY DICKINSON
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
EMILY BRONTE
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
EMILY DICKINSON
I was taught to do math and read at the same time. So you're six years old, you're reading &...
EMILY LEVINE
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
EMILY DICKINSON
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - a...
EMILY DICKINSON
Fortune befriends the bold.
EMILY DICKINSON
Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and e...
EMILY OSTER
I think women - relative to men - tend to feel that they have to do the household chores on top of e...
EMILY OSTER
If everyone is good at something different, assigning chores is easy. If your partner is great at gr...
EMILY OSTER
No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as ac...
EMILY OSTER
It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the ...
EMILY MURPHY
Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call ...
EMILY GIFFIN
Much of what I do in my job is think about whether relationships we see in data are causal, as oppos...
EMILY OSTER
The claim that SpongeBob makes your child dumber is a causal claim. If you do X, Y will happen. To p...
EMILY OSTER