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• In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words for. Have they ever stroked any adult with the love they bestow on a cat? Hugged any grownup with the ecstasy they feel when clasping a puppy?

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  Children, Cat, Animal

  Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

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• Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.

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  Leadership, Women, Distance

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.

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  Inspirational, Eye, Listening

  Jessamyn West (1959). “Love is not what you think”

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• Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.

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  People, Water, Wells

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• We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

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  Saint, Rogues, Honest

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

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  Inspirational, Teenage, Tragedy

  Jessamyn West (1953). “Cress Delahanty”, Harcourt

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• People who keep journals have life twice

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  Motivational, People, Journal Writing

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.

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  Two, Sick, Different

  Jessamyn West (1986). “Woman Said Yes: Encounters with Life and Death”, Harcourt on Demand

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• Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish.

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  Real, Study, Enough

  Jessamyn West (1945). “The friendly persuasion”

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• The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

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  Joy, Sorrow, Source

  Jessamyn West (2016). “Cress Delahanty”, p.100, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.

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  Feels

  Jessamyn West (1959). “Love is not what you think”

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• In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults

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  Children, Animal, Adults

  Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

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• The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.

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  Responsibility, Want, Emotion

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• If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

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  Baby, Being A Mom, Want

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

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  Umpires, Justice, Terrible

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• It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

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  Solitude, Easy, Born

  Jessamyn West (1973). “Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey”, Harcourt

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• The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

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  Animal, Color, Vegetables

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• In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

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  Success, Men, Soul

  Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

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• Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

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  Sleep, Insomnia, Desert

  Jessamyn West (1986). “Woman Said Yes: Encounters with Life and Death”, Harcourt on Demand

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• I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.

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  Hate, Creating, Mind

  Jessamyn West (1973). “Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey”, Harcourt

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• Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

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  Paradise, Fool, Chance

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• With enough libraries, all content is free.

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  Library, Enough

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