Citas de Mary MacLane

• I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.

  Mary MacLane

  Fire, Feelings, Genius

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.116, Petrarca Press

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• No veo ninguna belleza en la autocontención.

  Mary MacLane

  Self, Restraint, Self Restraint

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.128, Petrarca Press

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• The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

  Mary MacLane

  White, World, Littles

  Mary MacLane (2013). “I Await the Devil's Coming”, p.14, Melville House

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• No puedo pensar en nada en el mundo como la absoluta pequeñez, la mezquindad, el desprecio, la degradación, de la mujer que está atada bajo un techo con un hombre que en realidad no es nada para ella; que lleva el nombre del hombre, que tiene los hijos del hombre - que juega a la mujer virtuosa. . . . . Que nunca, digo, me convierta en ese anormal animal despiadado, esa monstruosidad deforme - una mujer virtuosa.

  Mary MacLane

  Niños, Animales, Hombres

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• I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.

  Mary MacLane

  Twelve, Genius

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: The Story of Mary MacLane”, p.94, The Floating Press

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• I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.

  Mary MacLane

  Libro, Escritura, Años

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.24, Petrarca Press

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• I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.

  Mary MacLane

  Self, Analysis, Constant

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I, Mary MacLane: A Diary of Human Days”, p.20, The Floating Press

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• He leído sobre mujeres que han sido muy, muy valientes. A veces he soñado que yo podría ser valiente. Las posibilidades de esta vida son magníficas.

  Mary MacLane

  Brave, Might, Sometimes

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.82, Petrarca Press

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• People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.

  Mary MacLane

  People, Peculiar, Emphasis

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.83, Petrarca Press

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• Que nunca, digo, me convierta en ese animal anormal y despiadado, esa monstruosidad deforme: una mujer virtuosa.

  Mary MacLane

  Animal, Abnormal, May

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.38, Petrarca Press

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• I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends.

  Mary MacLane

  Strong, Real, Self

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.122, Petrarca Press

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• Siempre he tenido una especie de genio; un corazón vacío que ha adquirido cierta cualidad de madera; un cuerpo de mujer excelente y fuerte y un alma lamentablemente famélica.

  Mary MacLane

  Strong Women, Taken, Heart

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• I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.

  Mary MacLane

  Play, Adore, I Like Him

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• Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?

  Mary MacLane

  World, Sexuality, Pure Love

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.29, Petrarca Press

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• But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.

  Mary MacLane

  Essence, Personality, Vapor

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.59, Petrarca Press

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• I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want to be.

  Mary MacLane

  Want, Born

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.121, Petrarca Press

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• The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.

  Mary MacLane

  Literature, World, Succeed

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.46, Petrarca Press

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• However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.

  Mary MacLane

  May, Speech, Language

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• I want to live quietly.

  Mary MacLane

  Want, Quiet

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• A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.

  Mary MacLane

  Doe, Genius, Knows

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.104, Petrarca Press

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• There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.

  Mary MacLane

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.126, Petrarca Press

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• Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.

  Mary MacLane

  Book, Names, Vulgar

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• When a man and a woman love one another that is enough. That is marriage. A religious rite is superfluous. And if the man and woman live together without the love, no ceremony in the world can make it a marriage.

  Mary MacLane

  Marriage, Religious, Men

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.38, Petrarca Press

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• I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings.

  Mary MacLane

  Evil, Feelings, Needs

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.101, Petrarca Press

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• La fama es ciertamente hermosa y benigna y suave y satisfactoria, pero la felicidad es algo a la vez tierno y brillante más allá de todas las cosas.

  Mary MacLane

  Beautiful, Brilliant, Fame

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