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“Alice,” I said, “be a man, pull yourself together. You still pulse with the eternal scheme of things. You know you do.” But my pulse tires me!
Madame Grows Older: A Journal at the Dangerous Age
My God, as I sit here I realize that I am perishable! O if that brute of an Einstein had only taken a fancy to my relativity! Time and space are my enemies. If it were not for time, I should not be dangerous, and if it were not for space, I should not feel so limited! How cruel is reason! How sharper than a serpent’s tooth is meditation! How subtle is the lack of reason!
The Diary of a Small Boy
I may not be old enough to put what I feel politely, but I feel what I feel, even if it is unpopular.
The Diary of a Dangerous Child
In another year I shall be fifteen, a woman must grow young again. I have cut off my hair and I am asking myself nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
The Diary of a Dangerous Child
...and my heart stopped beating, and I could feel all the childish uncertainties I had suffered become hard and firm, and I knew that I should never again be a child.
The Diary of a Dangerous Child
I have succeeded. No one guesses that my mind teems. No one suspects that I have come into my own, as they say.
But I have.