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The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

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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
Worse
Life
Pathos
Tragedy

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... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.
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Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.
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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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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
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1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.
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Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.
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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
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Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.
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Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.
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