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“She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.” quote by Ellen Glasgow — Download Open image

“She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.”

Ellen Glasgow

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Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.

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What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

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Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.

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The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring…

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I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost…

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Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons…

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Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?

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You look as if you lived on duty and it hadn't;t agreed with you.

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there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.

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Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

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It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced to face issues and emotions, feelings, that they have. So it kind of forces them to face it head on, which I think is a really interesting dynamic. And I think it should be interesting and…

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My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task.

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It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces society, and indeed the whole of human nature and consciousness today. Moreover, it may turn out that such a form of free exchange of ideas and information is of fundamental relevance for transforming culture and freeing…

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