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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.

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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
Romantic
Reality
Without
Matter
Mind
Love
Life
Illumination

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There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.
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What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.
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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
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It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
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to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
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Cruelty is the only sin.
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Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing.
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To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.
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First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know) next I was a realist now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.
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Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.
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True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.
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I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
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Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
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It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.
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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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Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
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Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.
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Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.
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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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