These people yapped loudly of race, of race consciousness, of race pride, and yet suppressed its most delightful manifestations, love of color, joy of rhythmic motion, naive, spontaneous laughter. Harmony, radiance, and simplicity, all the essentials of spiritual beauty in the race they had marked for destructions.

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Incited. That was it, the guidingprinciple of her life in Copenhagen. She was incited to make an impression, a voluptous impression. She was incited to inflame attention and admiration. She was dressed for it, subtly schooled for it. And after a little while she gave herself up wholly to the fascinating business of being seen, gaped at, desired.

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To each his own milieu. Enhance what was already in one's possession.

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Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

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She hated to admit that money was the most serious difficulty. Knowing full well that it was important, she nevertheless rebelled at the unalterable truth that it could influence her actions, block her desires. A sordid necessity to be grappled with.

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Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.

Nella Larsen

Mots clés science biology



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The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.

Nella Larsen

Mots clés selfishness



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Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it

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Mots clés sex



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But there was, she knew, something else. Happiness, she supposed. Whatever that might be. What, exactly, she wondered, was happiness. Very positively she wanted it.

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Mots clés happiness quicksand nella-larsen



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I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.

Nella Larsen

Mots clés motherhood mothers



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