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Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

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Life's bare as a bone.

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Women alone stir my imagination.

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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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What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying

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For nothing was simply one thing.

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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.

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I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross: that it's to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish.

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Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.

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With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall of time, which is forever lifting and pulling and letting fresh spaces of life in upon us. May it be mine to taste the moment before it has spread itself over the rest of the world! Let me taste the newest and the freshest.

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My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

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I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.

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She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable --- this interminable life.

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But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.

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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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One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.

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So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

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A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.

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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.

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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

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