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

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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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Submit to me." So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its mantle of peace; as if the people there had fallen alseep, she thought; were free like smoke, were free to come and go like ghosts. They have no suffering there, she thought.

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Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become.

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For it is a curious fact that though human beings have such imperfect means of communication, that they can only say 'good to eat' when they mean 'beautiful' and the other way about, they will yet endure ridicule and misunderstanding rather than keep any experience to themselves.

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Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

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Language is wine upon the lips.

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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.

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What a lark! What a plunge!

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One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.

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This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

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For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

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

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For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.

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He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.

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Wat a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever.

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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

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She fell into a deep pool of sticky water, which eventually closed over her head. She saw nothing and heard nothing but a faint booming sound, which was the sound of the sea rolling over her head. While all her tormentors thought that she was dead, she was not dead, but curled up at the bottom of the sea.

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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.

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