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“I think people who go to a psychiatrist ought to have their heads examined.”

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Jane Ace, a mysterious historical figure, was born on October 12, 1897, and passed away on November 11, 1974. Her profession and category are currently unclear, and her life story and achievements remain a mystery. more

“As I do not live in an age when rustling black skirts billow about me, and I do not carry an ebony stick to strike the floor in sharp rebuke, as this is denied me, I rap out a sentence in my note book and feel better. If a grandmother wants to put her foot down, the only safe place to do it these days is in a note book.”

Ifs Want Feels Book Age Black Feet Safe Sticks Notes Rap Sentences Strikes These Days Grandmother Denied Feel Better Skirts Rebuke Safe Places Note Book

Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell

“I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.”

Ifs Needs Energy Wonder Alive Solitude Compromise Disagreement Singles Living Alone

Book:Measure of My Days

Source: Measure of My Days

“I feel most real when alone, even most alive when alone. Better to say that the liveliness of companionship and the liveliness of solitude differ, and the latter is never as exhausting as the former.”

Feels Real Alive Solitude Former Latter Companionship Exhausting

Book:Measure of My Days

Source: Measure of My Days

“Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.”

Sound Innocent Destructive Lions Dove Those We Love Busybodies

Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell

“One cannot be honest even at the end of one's life, for no one is wholly alone. We are bound to those we love, or to those who love us, and to those who need us to be brave, or content, or even happy enough to allow them not to worry about us. So we must refrain from giving pain, as our last gift to our fellows.”

Needs Giving Ends Enough Pain Lasts Worry Honest Fellows Brave Bounds Being Honest Be Brave Discretion Refrain Those We Love

Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell

“What fun it is to generalize in the privacy of a note book. It is as I imagine waltzing on ice might be. A great delicious sweep in one direction, taking you your full strength, and then with no trouble at all, an equally delicious sweep in the opposite direction. My note book does not help me think, but it eases my crabbed heart.”

Thinking Heart Doe Book Helping Might Fun Imagine Trouble Opposites Notes Ice Ease Help Me Privacy Delicious One Direction Journaling Note Book

Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell

“life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.”

Life Law Life Is Half Accepting Mystery Lessons Driven Tragic Heroic Again And Again Helplessness

Book:Measure of My Days

Source: Measure of My Days

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