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What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?

The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing

But there was, she knew, something else. Happiness, she supposed. Whatever that might be. What, exac...

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It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew.

Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.

It was only that she wanted him to be happy, resenting, however, his inability to be so with things ...

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Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it

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The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she w...

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Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don't s...

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The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing

I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.

The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing

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Nella Larsen

Novelist

Born: 1891-04-13

Died: 1964-03-30

Nella Larsen (April 13, 1891–March 30, 1964) was a nurse, librarian and novelist during the Harlem Renaissance.More