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“They were steps for me, and I climbed up over themto do so I needed to go on past them. But they supposed I wanted to settle down on them.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.”
—Ellen Glasgow (18731945)
“This is no rune nor symbol,
what I mean is it is so simple
yet no trick of the pen or brush
could capture that impression;
what I wanted to indicate was
a new phase, a new distinction of colour.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
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