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what she loved: life, London, this moment of june.

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O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!

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Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?

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Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.

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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

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Thoughts without words… Can that be?

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for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge

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Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.

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Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.

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Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.

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Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

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My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.

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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.

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There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

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But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only to my eyes; also to some nervous fibre, or fanlike membrane in my species.

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women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. ... Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own.

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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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Use words that soak up life.

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... the random talk of people who have no chance of immortality and thus can speak their minds out has a setting, often, of lights, streets, houses, human beings, beautiful or grotesque, which will weave itself into the moment for ever.

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Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine people out of ten they would say they wanted nothing but this--love; while the women, judging from her own experience, would all the time be feeling, This is not what we want; there is nothing more tedious, puerile, and inhumane than this; yet it is also beautiful and necessary.

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