“Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.”
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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.