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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.

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Life would split apart without letters.

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There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.

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[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.

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One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

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And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

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Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

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Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

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Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

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Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall.

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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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A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.

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. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

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I will dream today; for I must unscrew my head somehow.

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I press to my centre, and find there is something there.

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I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.

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The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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

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

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With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she moved and took Minta's arm and left the room, it changed, it shaped itself differently; it had become, she knew, giving one last look at it over her shoulder, already the past.

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