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The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.

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My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.

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For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light.

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The world is crammed with delightful things

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I see through most people; I'm hardly ever wrong. I see at once what they've got in them.

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As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.

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... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony.

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But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.

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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.

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I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me.

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Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.

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To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.

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They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.

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The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

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In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment in June.

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

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Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.

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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

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