"I was born to be alone, and I……" — Mary MacLane
"I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want to be."
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38 Quotes by Mary MacLane
Mary MacLane has 38 quotes on this site.
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When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that…
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I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to…
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I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.
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Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I…
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I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and…
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Some people say that beauty is a curse. It may be true, but I'm sure I should not have at…
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I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the…
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Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond…
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When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where…
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Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality;…
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It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.
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I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the…
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More Alone Quotes
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
— J. J. Abrams
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
— Dido Armstrong
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
— Jane Austen
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
— Teresa of Avila
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
— Michelle Bachelet
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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