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I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.

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All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are sides, and it is necessary for one side to beat another side.

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The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.

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Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.

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The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

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Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.

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Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lost herself in the process of living, to find it with a shock of delight, as the sun rose, as the day sank. Many a time had she gone, at Barton when they were all talking, to look at the sky; seen it between peoples shoulders at dinner; seen it in London when she could not sleep. She walked to the window.

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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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Marvelous are the innocent.

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She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

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One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table, and yet at the same time, It's a miracle, it's an ecstasy.

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It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.

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Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.

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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.

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Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.

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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

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In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.

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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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I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.

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Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

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