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Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square but I open my eyes and exclaim, "Good God! Here I am again!" not always with pleasure, often with pain; sometimes in a spasm.

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But the novels of women were not affected only by the necessarily narrow range of the writer's experience. They showed, at least in the nineteenth century, another characteristic which may be traced to the writer's sex. In Middlemarch and in Jane Eyre we are conscious not merely of the writer's character, as we are conscious of the character of Charles Dickens, but we are conscious of a woman's presence of someone resenting the treatment of her sex and pleading for its rights.

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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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She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.

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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.

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That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under drifts of sand, regardless of lures, of seductions; to be poor always and unkempt; to be ridiculous in Piccadilly.

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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

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I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

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The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.

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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

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And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence.

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And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely.

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to teach without zest is a crime.

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Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.

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The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

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A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.

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When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

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

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