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“this thing seems more dreadful than anything else that has ever happened, more utterly dreadful — but you’ll find that it will…

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Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in…

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“Stephen, why are you shivering?' 'I don't know, my darling.' 'Mary, why are you crying?' 'I don't know, Stephen.' p424”

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“Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation – one point of light. The…

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Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.

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Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

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“There is something that mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism,…

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“To her it seemed an inevitable thing as much a part of herself as her breathing; and yet it appeared transcendent of…

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the realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow…

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“No one is useless who can pray, my sister.”

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“But her mother had looked at her curiously, gravely, puzzled by this creature who seemed all contradictions - at one moment so…

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“The world would condemn but they would rejoice; glorious outcasts, unashamed, triumphant!”

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“Memory, the old room was haunted by it — a man dying with love in his eyes that was deathless — a…

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A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.

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“Strange it is, but unforgettable moments are often connected with very small happenings, happenings that assume fictitious proportions, especially”

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The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.

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“Then Stephen must tell her the cruel truth, she must say: ‘I am one of those whom God marked on the forehead.…

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“So now Stephen must actually learn at first hand hwo straight can run the path of true love, in direct contradiction to…

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“Since this is a hard and sad truth for the telling; those whom nature has sacrificed to her ends--her mysterious ends that…

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I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far…

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“I cannot protect you, Mary, the world has deprived me of my right to protect; I am utterly helpless, I can only…

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“One night he said abruptly: Stephen won't marry—I don't want her to marry; it would only mean disaster.' And at this Anna…

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“But do try to remember this: even the world’s not so black as it’s painted.”

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“And her eyes filled with heavy, regretful tears, yet she did not quite know for what she was weeping. She only knew…

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in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.

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