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There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there...
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The doctors were very brave about it.Source: Said after she had been seriously...
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. More about this quote
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we...
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were. ....
Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. As he grew...
To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.Source: Letter, 1879; in Letters...
I felt it shelter to speak to you.Source: Letter, 1878; in Letters of Emily...
Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me...
Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for...
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and...
There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs,...
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. More about this quote
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not...
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. More about this quote
We met . . . Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be...
Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of...
It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the...
The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's...
Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and...
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