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Radclyffe Hall quotes: The realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.

The realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.

Radclyffe Hall quotes: Pat's been deserted -- have you heard that, darling? Do you think she'll take the veil or cocaine or something?

Pat's been deserted -- have you heard that, darling? Do you think she'll take the veil or cocaine or something?

Radclyffe Hall quotes: It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

Radclyffe Hall quotes: Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.

Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.

Radclyffe Hall quotes: The sorrows of childhood are mercifully passing, for it is only when maturity has rendered soil mellow that grief will root very deeply. Stephen's

The sorrows of childhood are mercifully passing, for it is only when maturity has rendered soil mellow that grief will root very deeply. Stephen's

Radclyffe Hall quotes: Nothing appears to succeed like success in a world that is principally made up of failure.

Nothing appears to succeed like success in a world that is principally made up of failure.

Radclyffe Hall quotes: [On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.

[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.

Radclyffe Hall quotes: In her they instinctively sensed an outlaw, and theirs was the task of policing nature.

In her they instinctively sensed an outlaw, and theirs was the task of policing nature.

Radclyffe Hall quotes: Life's not all beer and skittles

Life's not all beer and skittles

Radclyffe Hall quotes: The eyes of the young are drawn to the stars, and the spirit of youth is seldom earth-bound.

The eyes of the young are drawn to the stars, and the spirit of youth is seldom earth-bound.

Radclyffe Hall quotes: Oh, yes -- very easy to talk about death, but not so easy to manage the dying.

Oh, yes -- very easy to talk about death, but not so easy to manage the dying.

Radclyffe Hall quotes: A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.

A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.

Radclyffe Hall quotes: But Pierre, who like all who have known the sea was a child at heart, broke into loud exclamations

But Pierre, who like all who have known the sea was a child at heart, broke into loud exclamations

Radclyffe Hall quotes: If our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours.

If our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours.

Radclyffe Hall quotes: The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.

The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.

Radclyffe Hall quotes: In this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.

In this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.

Radclyffe Hall quotes: The eyes themselves were the eyes of a writer, always a little tired in expression.

The eyes themselves were the eyes of a writer, always a little tired in expression.

Radclyffe Hall quotes: Outrageous ... that wilfully selfish tyranny of silence evolved by a crafty old ostrich of a world for its own well-being and comfort.

Outrageous ... that wilfully selfish tyranny of silence evolved by a crafty old ostrich of a world for its own well-being and comfort.

Radclyffe Hall quotes: Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted-Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted
-Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

Radclyffe Hall quotes: Clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression.

Clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression.

Radclyffe Hall quotes: Love is the sweetest monotony that was ever conceived of by the Creator.

Love is the sweetest monotony that was ever conceived of by the Creator.

Radclyffe Hall quotes: For your own sake you must go to Oxford, you'll need every weapon your brain can give you; being what you are you'll need every weapon.

For your own sake you must go to Oxford, you'll need every weapon your brain can give you; being what you are you'll need every weapon.

Radclyffe Hall quotes: Stephen, why are you shivering?''I don't know, my darling.''Mary, why are you crying?''I don't know, Stephen.'p424

Stephen, why are you shivering?'
'I don't know, my darling.'
'Mary, why are you crying?'
'I don't know, Stephen.'
p424

Radclyffe Hall quotes: Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation one point of light.

Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation
one point of light.

Radclyffe Hall quotes: Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.

Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.