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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
Ellen Glasgow
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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
Illumination
Romantic
Reality
Without
Matter
Mind
Love
Life
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There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.
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But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.
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Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
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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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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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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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He who demands little gets it.
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To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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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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Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
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It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.
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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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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
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It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.
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I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
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women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
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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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No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.
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A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.
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