Sarah Holland
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Sarah Holland
Neither knew that she was more tolerant because she loved him less.
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence • Sons and Lovers
The same earth that bears my footsteps also bears my abuse, freely allowing me to use it in so many ways for so many purposes.
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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
“As the writer Will Wilkinson wrote in 2022, “Building a relatively accurate mental model of the world doesn’t have all that much to do with your individual reasoning capacity. It’s mostly about trusting and distrusting the right people.”
Gullible, Cynical America — The Atlantic
What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires filling. With things like angry letters to The Times.
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The Fraud
Zadie Smith
In Frankenstein, without maternal love the creature turns to violence and Frankenstein’s ambition is allowed to flourish unchecked;
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
Charlotte Gordon
Mary, what mattered most was precisely what Shelley had skipped over: the feelings of the victim, the woman’s inner life—the themes her mother had focused on in her books.
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
Charlotte Gordon
when we adults think of children, there is a simple truth which we ignore: childhood is not preparation for life, childhood is life. a child isn’t getting ready to live – a child is living. the child is constantly confronted with the nagging question, “what are you going to be?” courageous would be the youngster who, looking the adult squarely
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