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The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.

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Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.

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There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

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Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.

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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.

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He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.

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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

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What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

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One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

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After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.

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Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.

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... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.

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madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.

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A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.

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Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

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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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Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.

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