There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.
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Zum Autor"One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood."
"The longer the time that has elapsed, the more things fall into proportion. One sees them in their true relationship to one another."
"Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity."
"You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its face value. You are not just one of the women of the household. You are Renisenb who wants to think for herself, who wonders about other people."
"I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste."
"Mon cher docteur! Do you not think I know the female mentality? The village gossip, it is based always, always on the relations of the sexes. If a man poisons his wife in order to travel to the North Pole or to enjoy the peace of a bachelor existence—it would not interest his fellow-villagers for a minute!"