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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
Without
Matter
Mind
Love
Life
Illumination
Romantic
Reality

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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
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Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.
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There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.
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... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.
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Dignity is an anachronism.
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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
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To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
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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 wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.
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Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.
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After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour
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I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.
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To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.
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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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I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.
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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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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.
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