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“Were I fit for another world, how gladly would I go there.”
― Anne Lister, The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

“[I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world.]”
― Anne Lister, The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister: Volume I

“We like to view ourselves as ambulatory brains, plugged into meat-puppets that lug our precious grey matter from place to place.”
― C. Doctorow

“Burnt… Mr Montagu’s farewell verses that no trace of any man’s admiration may remain. It is not meet for me. I love, & only love, the fairer sex & thus beloved by them in turn, my heart revolts from any other love than theirs.”
― Anne Lister, The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister: Volume I