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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

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Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any.

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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.

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As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

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Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

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There'll be oceans of talk and emotions without end.

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It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.

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Well, we must wait for the future to show.

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On or about December 1910, human character changed.

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Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

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

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Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room and through the waves came the voices of birds singing.

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Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the

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It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of human gain. The world by all means should have shared it, could Mr Bankes have said why that woman pleased him so; why the sight of her reading a fairy tale to her boy had upon him precisely the same effect as the solution of a scientific problem.

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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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The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

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Use words that soak up life.

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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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