Ellen Glasgow - The sheltered life (1932)

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Women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.

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It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

Ellen Glasgow

What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life — the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being.

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