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loveliness is infernally sad.

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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

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Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming into the wilderness. The rack and the thumbscrew are applied. Human nature is remorseless.

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Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

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It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.

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

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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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My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.

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We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.

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How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.

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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.

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Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man; some think even greater.

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

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When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

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Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

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For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

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old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections.

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