Jessamyn West citations (6 citations)

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Jessamyn West: Citations en anglais

“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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Jessamyn West

To See the Dream, part 1 (1956)

“In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.”

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Jessamyn West

The Life I Really Lived, part 1 (1979)
Contexte: 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?

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

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Jessamyn West

To See the Dream, part 1 (1956)

“I never meet anyone nowadays who admits to having had a happy childhood. Everyone appears to think happiness betokens a lack of sensitivity.”

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Jessamyn West

The Life I Really Lived, part 1 (1979)

“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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Jessamyn West

The Life I Really Lived, part 7 (1979)