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So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.

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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

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If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy.

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Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.

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No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.

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The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

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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’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.

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There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.

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What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

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That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under drifts of sand, regardless of lures, of seductions; to be poor always and unkempt; to be ridiculous in Piccadilly.

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It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.

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I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me.

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I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

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Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

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Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.

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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.

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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

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