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Mary Boykin Chesnut Quotes

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

– Mary Boykin Chesnut

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

– Mary Boykin Chesnut

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?

– Mary Boykin Chesnut

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

– Mary Boykin Chesnut

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

– Mary Boykin Chesnut

Is anything worth it?

– Mary Boykin Chesnut

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

– Mary Boykin Chesnut

I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.

– Mary Boykin Chesnut

She died praying that she might die.

– Mary Boykin Chesnut

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

– Mary Boykin Chesnut

I am always on the women’s side.

– Mary Boykin Chesnut

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