She did not understand why women complicated their lives with corsets and petticoats, so she sewed herself a coarse cassock that she simply put over her and without further difficulties resolved the problem of dress, without taking away the feeling of being naked, which according to her lights was the only decent way to be when at home. Anonymous
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  1. When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable. - Jess C. Scott

  2. As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin. - Pablo Neruda

  3. The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last. - Nicholas Sparks

  4. Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love - Unknown

  5. By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this --One of you is lying. - Dorothy Parker

More Quotes By Anonymous
  1. For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

  2. Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?

  3. It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if she adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced,...

  4. A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

  5. It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness...

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