“The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.”
Source: The Well of Loneliness
Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe Hall was an English poet and author, best known for the novel The Well of Loneliness, a groundbreaking work in lesbian literature. In adulthood, Hall often went by the name John, rather than Marguerite.
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“The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.”
Source: The Well of Loneliness