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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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passions held in check

As Diana's intelligence strengthens it takes in ever harder truths. She begins to see that her independence is intimately related to the clarity of her thought, and she comes to believe that the increasing goodness of her mind is linked to passions held in check. Passionate feeling, she is persuade…

—p.10 The End of The Novel of Love Diana of the Crossways (1) by Vivian Gornick
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every MP in town wants to have dinner at Diana's

[...] Diana's husband feels the sting of her independence. He broods on it, then falls into a rage, brings suit against her, naming the MP as corespondent. But he cannot prove his case. The Warwicks separate and, with her reputation barely intact, Diana sets herself up as a political hostess and be…

—p.9 Diana of the Crossways (1) by Vivian Gornick
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the marriage will be a charade

In a thousand novels of love-in-the-Western-world the progress of feeling between a woman of intelligence and a man of will is charted through a struggle that concludes itself when the woman at last melts into romantic longing and the deeper need for union. There are, however, a handful of remarkab…

—p.3 Diana of the Crossways (1) by Vivian Gornick
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