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Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

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Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever.

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To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!

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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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Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming into the wilderness. The rack and the thumbscrew are applied. Human nature is remorseless.

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As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.

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I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.

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Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.

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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

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I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.

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

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The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

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The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life.

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For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.

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How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.

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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.

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Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.

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Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.

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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

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