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84. Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she—for-
gets how to charm.

85. The same emotions are in man and woman, but in dif-
ferent TEMPO, on that account man and woman never
cease to misunderstand each other.

86. In the background of all their personal vanity, women
themselves have still their impersonal scorn—for ‘woman”.

87. FETTERED HEART, FREE SPIRIT—When one firmly
fetters one’s heart and keeps it prisoner, one can allow one’s
spirit many liberties: I said this once before But people do
not believe it when I say so, unless they know it already.

88. One begins to distrust very clever persons when they
become embarrassed.

89. Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who
experiences them is not something dreadful also.

90. Heavy, melancholy men turn lighter, and come tempo-
rarily to their surface, precisely by that which makes others
heavy—by hatred and love.

91. So cold, so icy, that one burns one’s finger at the touch of
him! Every hand that lays hold of him shrinks back!—And
for that very reason many think him red-hot.

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