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"Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame."

"Before making a snap judgment, ask yourself if it really is something that has hurt you or simply just made you angry at yourself for allowing it to happen. It's amazing what 'sleeping on it' can do. A new day sees a new beginning."

"There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad."

"Who I am? Am I thinking?"
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"You are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness."


"To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is almost a palpable movement. To enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilized mankind, who are diregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars."


"When women are secret they are secret indeed and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover."


"All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her rose automatically as the sap in the twigs. It was unexpected youth, surging up anew after its temporary check, and bringing with it hope, and the invincible instinct towards self-delight."


"She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct."


"I look into my glass,And view my wasting skin,And say, 'Would God it came to passMy heart had shrunk as thin!"
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