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So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

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literature is the record of our discontent.

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The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its china walls unrecorded.

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As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

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Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and Mr. Hemingway, but much less violently, follows suit.

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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.

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Fear no more, says the heart.

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He began to search among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly, incessantly upon his brain; among scents, sounds; voices, harsh, hollow, sweet; and lights passing, and brooms tapping; and the wash and hush of the sea.

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It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

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Thoughts without words… Can that be?

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What a lark! What a plunge!

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There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.

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Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.

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Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

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I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

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Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.

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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.

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She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!

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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

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To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?

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