Top 25 Karen Essex Quotes

#1. I am now satisfied of what I always though
which is how much more women can do if they set about it then men. I will lay any bet that had you been here, you would not have got half as much on board as I have.

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#2. I'm afraid that the gift of visiting the past is all that we have. We can revisit it, but only as it happened.

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#3. Perfection does not take into account the viewer.' Pheidias had once said to me. 'It exists on it own, independent of and unconcerned with opinions or utility.

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#4. Lovers of words have no place where honest work must be done.

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#5. I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men
great men
must build monuments and seek fame?

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#6. Everyone has a secret life. Perhaps yours is merely a gossamer web of thoughts and fantasies woven in the hidden furrows of your mind. Or furtive deeds performed on the sly or betrayals large and small that, if revealed, would change how you are perceived.
-Dracula in Love by Karen Essex

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#7. Mother Astarte who creates and destroys. Kybele, goddess of all that is, was, and ever shall be, he invoked.

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#8. It is not that I do not approve. Whatever a man's passion, he must pursue them, unless they offend God.

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#9. It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.

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#10. It is a quote from Mihri Hatun, a lady poet who wrote many centuries ago. 'A talented women is better than a thousand untalented men, and a women of understanding is better than a thousand stupid men.

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#11. Time. What was time? Time is a river that flows both forward and backward. How could that be true?

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#12. He did not smile. 'We are the keepers of the world's greatest treasures. Does that mean nothing to you?'
My children are my greatest treasures,' she said. 'Stone no matter how old, means nothing to me when compared to their welfare.

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#13. Think about it. For the sake of fame, men will risk great dangers. They put themselves in the jaws of death more than for their children. For fame, they will spend their money like water and work their fingers to the bone. Have you not observed this in your own home?

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#14. I was a married woman! she said. Why does every generation believe it is the discoverer of pleasure? Your father was a spectacular lover. Even through the wall, I could hear the triumph in her voice.

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#15. She was keen on the idea that a strong mind, enforced with a strong will, could overcome any difficulty.

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#16. The rich rarely give a black dog for a white monkey, my friend. It's the way of the world.

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#17. The world we learned as children to fear
the milieu of goblins, ghosts, spirits, and magic - when it is the tangible world that is rife with unimaginable horrors. The truth is, we must fear monsters less and be warier of our own kind.
-from Dracula In Love

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#18. One hundred copies? Of these poems you do not even like?" asked the Roman. "They're nasty bits about famous people; everyone will want them.

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#19. I am more human than rational.

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#20. You cannot hide from the truth, Mina. Anytime you try to argue with the truth you lose. Anytime you try to evade it or run away from it, it will find you down the road.

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#21. I remembered a truism that I had always known: no woman need let a man know the contents of her mind.

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#22. No rational person would intentionally commit an act of evil, for everyone knows that it would bring the wrath of the community upon him. (Socrates)

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#23. There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation?

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#24. I knew that his confession would be a tremendous relief to him but a burden to me. Such information, once shared, can never be retracted.

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#25. Feeding the family trumps conviction every time, Mary though, a basic law of the human condition.

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