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Mary Chesnut
About the author
Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.
Mary Chesnut,
#World
#Power
#Men
Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.
Mary Chesnut,
#Love
#Forgiveness
#Indifference
I am always on the women's side.
Mary Chesnut,
#Women
I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.
Mary Chesnut,
I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?
Mary Chesnut,
#Want
#Now
I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.
Mary Chesnut,
#Will
Is anything worth it?
Mary Chesnut,
#Worth
Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!
Mary Chesnut,
#Spirit
She died praying that she might die.
Mary Chesnut,
The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.
Mary Chesnut,
#Weight