"A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away."
-Ellen Glasgow
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"No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book."
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"Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?"
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"No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book."
-Ellen Glasgow
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"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."
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"It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me."
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