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May Sinclair, a British writer born on August 24, 1863, and died on November 14, 1946. She is known for her works in various genres including novels, poetry, and drama, and is celebrated for her unique literary style and profound portrayal of female characters.

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“You think the past affects the future. Has it never struck you that the future may affect the past? In your innocence there was the beginning of your sin. You were what you were to be.”

Sin Inescapable Fate May Sinclair Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched

Book:Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched

Source: Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched

“You can't conceive the perverse ingenuity he could put into hiding his affections.”

Character Humor Humour Emotions

Book:The Token

Source: The Token

“She sewed as she read. For the Vicar considered that sewing was an occupation and that reading was not. He was silent as long as his daughter sewed and when she read he talked.”

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“Though he plunged into work as another man might have plunged into dissipation, to drown the thought of her, you could see that he had no longer any interest in it; he no longer loved it. He attacked it with a fury that had more hate in it than love.”

Death Hate Grief Emotion Despair Anger Bereavement Widower

Book:The Token

Source: The Token

“In the last death we shall be shut up in this room, behind that locked door, together. We shall lie here together, for ever and ever, joined so fast that even God can't put us asunder. We shall be one flesh and one spirit, one sin repeated for ever, and ever; spirit loathing flesh, flesh loathing spirit; you and I loathing each other.' 'Why? Why?' she cried. 'Because that's all that's left us. That's what you made of love.”

Bitterness May Sinclair Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched

Book:Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched

Source: Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched

“At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.”

Moments Known Quiet Excitement Steady Thrill Observing Reflecting

Book:A Journal of Impressions in Belgium

Source: A Journal of Impressions in Belgium

“The War will leave none of us as it found us.”

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“if you don't believe in yourself, you'll have some difficulty in making other people believe in you.”

People Ifs Believe Confidence Difficulty Don't Believe Believe In Yourself Believe In You

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“when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.”

Thinking Fire Divine Genius Mere Sparks Flash

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“For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence. Not only had they the colour and authority of accomplished fact, they were invested with an immortality denied to facts.”

Men Mind Facts Imagination Violence Authority Average Immortality Colour Accomplished Denied Phantoms Average Man Vividness

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“Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.”

Reality Loses Knowing

Book:Mary Olivier: A Life

Source: Mary Olivier: A Life

“people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.”

People Trouble Don't Change

Author:May Sinclair

“And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.”

Journalist Nurse

Book:A Journal of Impressions in Belgium

Source: A Journal of Impressions in Belgium

About the Author

Born: August 24, 1863
Died: November 14, 1946
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 13

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