Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.
Radclyffe HallMan could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.
Radclyffe HallA great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.
Radclyffe Hallthe realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.
Radclyffe HallLanguage is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.
Radclyffe HallThe world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.
Radclyffe HallDo try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)
Radclyffe HallYou're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet -- you've not got your niche in creation. ~ The Well of Loneliness, 1928
Radclyffe HallIt is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.
Radclyffe Hall[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.
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