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I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.

Ada Leverson

There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.
ADA LEVERSON

Cessation Joy Pain Passive Satisfaction
All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.
ADA LEVERSON

Happy May People Remain Remember Talking
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
ADA LEVERSON

Cheerful Literature Man Real Unexpected Weak Young
You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
ADA LEVERSON

Know Letter Understand Wish Woman Writing
Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
ADA LEVERSON

Black Look Preverse Suit Well Woman
She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
ADA LEVERSON

Infidelity Morning Night Noon Reson Suspect
Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
ADA LEVERSON

Attention Most People Seen Through Visible Vision
The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would be of any real use. One would say it was there for trivialities only
ADA LEVERSON

Credited Desert Intuition Man Marvellous Often Real
Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin,
ADA LEVERSON

Beautiful Book Gray Meandering Oscar Poem Text Tiniest
When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits
ADA LEVERSON

Banging Depressing Drum Man Real Shrieking Young
To a woman–I mean, a nice woman–there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, however unfavourably, or so much in love with him that she never mentions his name.
ADA LEVERSON

Either Man Mean Nice Thing Woman
Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well!
ADA LEVERSON

Great Happiness Ideal Man Thinking Wife Woman
When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
ADA LEVERSON

Believe Fade Ideal Passion Realize Trust Worship
Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.
ADA LEVERSON

Domesticity Home Husband Passion
The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
ADA LEVERSON

Already Course Futurist Past Well
Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
ADA LEVERSON

Intuition Man Perhaps Quality Seen Women

I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.

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I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.

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