Karen Essex Quotes

• 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?

  Karen Essex

  Desire, World, Entanglement

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

  Karen Essex

  Done, Essex, Lovers

  Karen Essex (2008). “Stealing Athena: A Novel”, p.171, Anchor

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• I am more human than rational.

  Karen Essex

  Rational, Humans

  Karen Essex (2008). “Stealing Athena: A Novel”, p.336, Anchor

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

  Karen Essex

  Past, Visiting, Happened

  Karen Essex (2010). “Dracula in Love”, p.309, Anchor

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

  Karen Essex

  Sex, Respectable, Derogatory

  Karen Essex (2008). “Stealing Athena: A Novel”, p.146, Anchor

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• 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?

  Karen Essex

  Children, Home, Thinking

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• 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?

  Karen Essex

  Children, Men, Giving

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