There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

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I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's...

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's...

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in...

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in...

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our...

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our...

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can...

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can...

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.

Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.

Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered...

Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered...

For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death.

For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death.

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some...

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some...

I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but...

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but...

My arms have mutinied against me brutes! My fingers fidget like ten idle brats, My...

My arms have mutinied against me brutes! My fingers fidget like ten idle brats, My...

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death but once.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death but once.

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that...

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that...

Death came very easily to her. She had lived such an innocent and loving life...

Death came very easily to her. She had lived such an innocent and loving life...

Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die.

Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die.