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“Anyone without spiritual aspirations is a fool”
― Sōseki Natsume, Kokoro

“How silly men were! Their part in procreation was so unimportant; it was the woman who carried the child through long months of uneasiness and bore it with pain, and yet a man because of his momentary connection made such preposterous claims. Why should that make any difference to him in his feelings towards the child?”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

“...you don't really become a finer person just by reading lots of books.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro

“Her pain was so great that she could have screamed at the top of her voice. She had never known that one could suffer so much; and she asked herself desperately what she had done to deserve it.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil