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women love with their imagination and men with their senses.

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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Suffragette
Writer
Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Women
Men
Love
Senses
Imagination

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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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There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.
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No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
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It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.
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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
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I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.
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Dignity is an anachronism.
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Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.
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you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.
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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
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the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.
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The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.
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No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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