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There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.

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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.

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I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.

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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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For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? --some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning--indeed they did.

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For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

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Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way; without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type.

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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

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No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.

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I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.

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Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

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Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.

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To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

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Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.

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Nothing is stronger than the position of the dead among the living.

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They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.

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Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.

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