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The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

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The world is equally astonished—and resentful—at every new discovery, but in a short time accepts it as a commonplace. The layman resents all new ideas, but the adjustment of the human mind to the inevitable is common even among savages.

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The curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.

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Power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.

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You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet—you've not got your niche in creation.
Radclyffe Hall

Gertrude Atherton

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Born: October 30, 1857
Died: June 14, 1948 (aged 90)
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