"I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity."

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Source : Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

Elizabeth Blackwell

#Identity Quotes #Losing Quotes #Hermits Quotes

“Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it is hard to believe it existed as anything but a logical construction; and what imagist found it possible to go on writing imagist poetry? A number of poets have stopped writing entirely; others, like recurring decimals, repeat the novelties they commeced with, each time less valuably than before. And there are surrealist poetry, and political poetry, and all the othe refuges of the indigent.”
“The most important time in life is the present.”
“Do you wanna play? Everyone's dead, so I got bored. Did you come to play with me? --Wrath”
“Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.”
“On the other hand, the pleasure caused by laughter, even on the stage, is not an unadulterated enjoyment; it is not a pleasure that is exclusively esthetic or altogether disinterested. It always implies a secret or unconscious intent, if not of each one of us, at all events of society as a whole. In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate, and consequently to correct our neighbour, if not in his will, at least in his deed.”
“My philosophy is that the people around us are there doing as much work if not more work behind the scenes and they're the last people you would ever be unkind to, so I hope I'm not a diva off stage.”
“No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.”
“Success is not for those who want it, nor those who need it, but for those who are utterly determined to seize it--whatever it takes.”

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