Ellen Glasgow - Love Quotes

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Women love with their imagination and men with their senses.

Ellen Glasgow

Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love'.

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Every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.

Ellen Glasgow

The life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.

Ellen Glasgow

The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.

Ellen Glasgow

Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

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