Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut [animals] up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great h...eight to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph.... "Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A bestial and violent man will go so far as to kill because he is under the influence of drink, exasperated, or driven by rage and... alcohol. He is paltry. He does not know the pleasure of killing, the charity of bestowing death like a caress, of linking it with the play of the noble wild beasts: every cat, every tiger, embraces its prey and licks it even while it destroys it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To b...ecome ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified pastime--I'm referring to t...he kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful. I agree that it's hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain deserves no consideration at all. It's no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with ...them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »