Life Quote by Shirley Hazzard

“They lived under supervision, a life without men. Dora knew no men. You could scarcely see how she might meet one, let alone come to know.” quote by Shirley Hazzard — Download Open image

““They lived under supervision, a life without men. Dora knew no men. You could scarcely see how she might meet one, let alone come to know.””

Shirley Hazzard

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“I see that you are highly defensive." . . . Caro said, "I withhold my analysis of your own attitude.”

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“Dark had meant Dora, had meant words and events sordid with self. Struggling to the light from Dora's darkness, Caro had acquired conscience and equilibrium like a profound, laborious education. Exercise of principle would always require more from her than from persons nurtured in it, for she had learned it by application of will. Caro would never do the right…

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“Sometimes, as now, her heart twisted and broke under his determination to wound her. At others, she was almost convinced that she felt nothing more for him, that he had overdrawn on her endurance: then she would stay silent for awhile, almost at peace, beyond his reach, not knowing whether she had been utterly vanquished or become completely invincible. However,…

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