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If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?

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I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.

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And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.

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As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.

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One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table, and yet at the same time, It's a miracle, it's an ecstasy.

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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.

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It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

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Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall.

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We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.

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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.

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Love had a thousand shapes.

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As a woman, I have no country

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I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preserve my body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, before this omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends.

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I press to my centre, and find there is something there.

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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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As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his command Dickens made his books blaze up, not by tightening the plot or sharpening the wit, but by throwing another handful of people upon the fire.

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Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that

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I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

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