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What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.

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I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.

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To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.

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Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame

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But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear came over him- he could not feel. He could reason; he could read, Dante for example, quite easily…he could add up his bill; his brain was perfect; it must be the fault of the world then- that he could not feel.

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The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. He is as tough as catgut and as evanescent as a butterfly's bloom.

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All artists need a room of their own

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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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If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women.

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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

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Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?

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There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

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You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.

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I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.

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That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your way fearlessly and saturate it completely so that your poem is a whole, not a fragment; to re-think human life into poetry and so give us tragedy again and comedy by means of characters not spun out at length in the novelist's way, but condensed and synthesized in the poet's way--that is what we look to you to do now.

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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

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The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.

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Love had a thousand shapes.

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letters are venerable; and the telephone valiant, for the journey is a lonely one, and if bound together by notes and telephones we went in company, perhaps - who knows? - we might talk by the way.

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