Quotes from Mary Boykin Chesnut


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    Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

    Love | Impossible | Lasts


    Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.

    Power | Men | Unlimited


    Is anything worth it?

    Worth


    I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

    Regrets | Vain | Allow


    I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.

    Laugh | Breathe | Laughable


    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?

    Hear | Dwell | Loathing


    I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.

    Time | Spider | Spend


    Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

    Men | Lazy | Spirit


    She died praying that she might die.

    Die | Praying | Might


    The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.

    Lead | Weight


    I am always on the women's side.

    Women | Side


       

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