Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
ADA LEVERSON
Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it’s followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.
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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.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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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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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
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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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