Radclyffe Hall - The Well of Loneliness (1928)

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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.
Of lesbianism

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What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from their moorings; men were free when they were cast out of their homes—free to starve, free to perish of cold and hunger.

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Great wars will be followed by great discontents — the pruning knife has been laid to the tree, and the urge to grow throbs through its mutilated branches.

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The realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.

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I am one of those whom God marked on the forehead. Like Cain, I am marked and blemished. If you come to me... the world will abhor you, will persecute you, will call you unclean. Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond – yet the world will call it unclean.

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The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.

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Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted

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In this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.

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It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

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Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.

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