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Born in 1904, Virgilia Peterson was an accomplished author whose works are renowned for their profound insight and unique literary style.

A Matter of Life and Death

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“Perhaps it is the expediency in the political eye that blinds it.”

Eye Political Politics Expediency

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“A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady - the only kind to be in a time of increasing classlessness - could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases, unmarried mothers, and/or birth control with impunity. But never by so much as the shadow of a look should she acknowledge her own experience with the Facts of Life.”

Should Looks Kind Facts Mother Girl Social Causes Birth Disease Shadow Acknowledge Hypocrisy Enlightened Facts Of Life Birth Control Impunity Unmarried

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“Were marriage no more than a convenient screen for sexuality, some less cumbersome and costly protection must have been found by this time to replace it. One concludes therefore that people do not marry to cohabit; they cohabit to marry. They do not seek freedom to rut so much as they seek the rut of wedlock.”

People Has Beens Found Sexuality Protection Screens Convenient Ruts Wedlock

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“There is no plummet to sound another's soul.”

Soul Sound

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“Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes and defeats, their fevers, their undiagnosable ailments, their sudden deaths. They also have their moral and social distinctions.”

Art Literature Social Moral Economy Defeat Divorce Distinction Fever Genealogy Art And Music Ailments Sudden Death

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“Love by its presence, like God by His, makes everything not necessarily clear or right or even good, but acceptable. Whereas in its absence, as in His, there is no hope.”

Clear Absence Acceptable No Hope

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“Not only are there as many conflicting truths as there are people to claim them; there are equally multitudinous and conflicting truths within the individual.”

People Individual Healing Conflict Claims Conflicting Ideas

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“I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.”

Doe I Can Memories Choke Selective

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“However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of the heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.”

Heart Doe Real Memories Remains Divorce Nerves Fiber

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