Dorothy Richardson Short Quotes

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Marriage is not an institution, it is an intuition.

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The Church will go on being a Royal Academy of Males.

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Men would always rather be made love to than talked at.

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Death must be got through as life had been, just somehow.

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Life is creation. Self and circumstances the raw material.

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Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.

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A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.

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By inventing the telephone we've damaged the chances of telepathy.

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Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms.

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It's only in silence that you can judge of your relationship to a person.

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The better you hear a thing put, the more certain you are there's another view.

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The difference between you and me is that you think to live and I live to think.

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Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.

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The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.

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People is themselves when they are children, and not again till they know they'm dying.

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It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world...

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Its lamplit walls were dear to her, with the extraordinary same dearness of all walls seen in tranquillity.

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Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

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No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.

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Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty; making a heaven while they wait.

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Her cheeks flushed at the indecency of being seen, dying and then dead. If only she could get it over and lay herself out decent before anyone came in to see and meddle.

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You think Christianity is favorable to women? On the contrary. It is the Christian countries that have produced the prostitute and the most vile estimations of women in the world.

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Whatever might be the truth about heredity, it was immensely disturbing to be pressed upon by two families, to discover, in their so different qualities, the explanation of oneself.

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