Quote#Remembrance
Having once seen Alice Oke in the reality, it was quite impossible to…
Quote byVernon Lee · 1856–1935
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Phantom Lover: A Fantastic Story (Boston: Roberts Bros, 1886) ch. 2, p. 23.
English (original)
Having once seen Alice Oke in the reality, it was quite impossible to remember that one could have fancied her at all different: there was something so complete, so completely unlike every one else, in her personality, that she seemed always to have been present in one's consciousness, although present, perhaps, as an enigma.
— Vernon Lee
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