Nella Larsen Quotes

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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It was only that she wanted him to be happy, resenting, however, his inability to be so with things as they were, and never acknowledging that though she did want him to be happy, it was only in her own way and by some plan of hers for him that she truly desired him to be so.

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

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

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Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.

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