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With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

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But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.

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I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

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In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in two seconds at the utmost, and it now remained only to fill in such unimportant details as what they were called; where they lived; and whether they were beggars or people of substance.

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Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.

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...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.

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A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop.

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Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)

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Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

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No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.

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So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.

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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.

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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.

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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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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

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What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.

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O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.

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The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on fields wide-eyed and watchful and entirely careless of what was done or thought by the beholders.

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The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I.

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