“It is true that my shunning was a message from our community to my mother. Her rejection of me was a measure of the humiliation she felt. She believed until her death that I caused her to lose her friends and her stature in the town.”
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“Being slender is undoubtedly elegant but neurotic self-obsession is not. - Madame Dariaux”
“If you want growth in life and in society, you must scale back the brakes on your desires.”
“She is my friend, and there is nothing you can say or do that can stop me from helping her.”
“It is true I am a complete stranger to these people, but they are not strangers to me.”