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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
Life
Illumination
Romantic
Reality
Without
Matter
Mind
Love

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for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.
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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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After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
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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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I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
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The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.
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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.
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But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
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. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others.
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The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
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What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.
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It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.
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