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

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Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?

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My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

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

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What a lark! What a plunge!

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The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

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For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said.

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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

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The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.

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I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

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No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes

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... the random talk of people who have no chance of immortality and thus can speak their minds out has a setting, often, of lights, streets, houses, human beings, beautiful or grotesque, which will weave itself into the moment for ever.

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How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?

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There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

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Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.

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Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

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I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.

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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

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We scarcely wish to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

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