Believe Quote by Laura Riding

“I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.”

Laura Riding

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rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity.

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Women are strangers in the country of man.

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