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41 " Why should this girl have crossed Stephen’s path, or indeed Stephen hers, if it came to that matter? Was not the world large enough for them both? Perhaps not — or perhaps the event of their meeting had already been written upon tablets of stone by some wise if relentless recording finger. "
― Radclyffe Hall , The Well of Loneliness
42 " Love is the sweetest monotony that was ever conceived of by the Creator. "
43 " For together with those who themselves being normal, had long put intellects above bodies, were writers, painters, musicians and scholars, men and women who, set apart from their birth, had determined to hack out a niche in existence. "
44 " To keep life in his desolate, long-suffering soul, he had stored his mind with much profound learning. So now many poor devils went to him for advice, which he never refused though he gave it sadly. It was always the same: 'Do the best you can, no man can do more -- but never stop fighting. For us there is no sin so great as despair, and perhaps no virtue so vital as courage. "
45 " But do try to remember this: even the world’s not so black as it’s painted. "
46 " Oh, Stephen, Stephen, get used to the world -- it's a horrible place full of horrible people, but it's all there is, and we live in it, don't we? So we've just got to do as the world does, my Stephen. "
47 " The sorrows of childhood are mercifully passing, for it is only when maturity has rendered soil mellow that grief will root very deeply. Stephen’s "
48 " Oh, yes -- very easy to talk about death, but not so easy to manage the dying. "
49 " Pat's been deserted -- have you heard that, darling? Do you think she'll take the veil or cocaine or something? "
50 " Nothing appears to succeed like success in a world that is principally made up of failure. "
51 " No one is useless who can pray, my sister. "
52 " The world would condemn but they would rejoice; glorious outcasts, unashamed, triumphant! "
53 " I cannot protect you, Mary, the world has deprived me of my right to protect; I am utterly helpless, I can only love you. "
54 " For at moments such is the blindness and folly, yet withal the redeeming glory of love. "
55 " this thing seems more dreadful than anything else that has ever happened, more utterly dreadful — but you’ll find that it will pass and be completely forgotten — "
56 " And so blinded was she by those gleams of glory which the stars fling into the eyes of young lovers, that she saw perfection where none existed; saw a patient endurance that was purely fictitious, and conceived of a loyalty far beyond the limits of Angela's nature. "
57 " For she thought that she glimpsed through the dust of the years, a faint flicker of the girl who had lingered in the lanes when the young man Williams and she had been courting. And looking at Williams as he stood before her twitching and bowed, she thought that she glimpsed a faint flicker of the youth, very stalwart and comely, who had bent his head downwards and sideways as he walked and whispered and kissed in the lanes. "
58 " There seldom seemed to be a house left with a roof, or with anything much beyond its four walls, and quite often they must lie staring up at the stars, which would stare back again, aloof and untroubled. "
59 " But Pierre, who like all who have known the sea was a child at heart, broke into loud exclamations "
60 " After she had gone he sat on alone, and the lie was still bitter to his spirit as he sat there, and he covered his face for the shame that was in him - but because of the love that was in him he wept. "