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A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.

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The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.

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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

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If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.

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It is the duty of the writer to describe.

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But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.

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Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.

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When she read just now to James, 'and there were numbers of soldiers with kettledrums and trumpets,' and his eyes darkened, she thought, why should they grow up, and lose all that?

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These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.

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

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Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

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I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.

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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

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I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

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Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been heard tumbling and tossing, as the winds and waves disported themselves like the amorphous bulks of leviathans whose brows are pierced by no light of reason, and mounted one on top of another, and lunged and plunged in the darkness or the daylight (for night and day, month and year ran shapelessly together) in idiot games, until it seemed as if the universe were battling and tumbling, in brute confusion and wanton lust aimlessly by itself.

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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

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... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony.

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Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

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Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?

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